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Karen Jordan

Faith and Family Stories

Focusing on God’s Presence

Focusing on God’s Presence

Do you sense you’ve lost your way in your spiritual journey? I walk through one door and find the next door padlocked. Yet, as I turn around, the door behind me has closed, too. I find myself plagued by indecision and doubt. How did I get here, Lord? When I finally...

Discovering a New  Prayer Strategy

Discovering a New Prayer Strategy

  With my personal life on hold due to my mother’s health crisis, I didn’t know how to help her.  I couldn’t even take care of my own family responsibilities four hundred miles away. Plus, I struggled to manage my other commitments at work and college. I couldn’t...

Facing Your Fear,  Doubt, and Unbelief

Facing Your Fear, Doubt, and Unbelief

When my husband sensed God’s call to move our family to a city we’d never even visited, I agreed to go because I believed it was the right thing to do. It didn’t take long for my emotional connections to my past to deeply trouble me. I thought about the loved ones I...

Speaking God’s Truth to Your Soul

During my mother’s health crisis, I didn’t know what to say or do. Overwhelmed by fearful emotions, I tried to pray. I knew God’s miraculous intervention was Mother’s only hope. But I still felt helpless and afraid. And I panicked. Lord, I don’t know what to do? Help!...

Navigating Your Negative Self-Talk and Overwhelming Anxiety

Navigating Your Negative Self-Talk and Overwhelming Anxiety

How do you respond to overwhelming emotions? Positive or negative self-talk? Fearful thoughts escalated into a full-blown panic attack as I faced a crisis with my mother over a decade ago. As I waited for the doctors to diagnose her medical condition, I began to do...

We Will All Be Changed

We Will All Be Changed

  Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— (1 Cor. 15:51 NIV) I first noticed this scripture from 1 Corinthians 15:51 about "change" a few years ago on a hallway mural in our church nursery. I laughed at the clever...