by Emily Dilorenzo | Jul 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
Hello Hoper, I recently learned the difference between worry and rumination. Worry focuses on future uncertainty. Rumination occurs when we obsess on negative thoughts directed at past and sometimes present events. I always thought rumination was simply thinking...
by Emily Dilorenzo | Apr 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
Hello Hoper, We’ve all had them. Those thoughts that pop into your mind in the middle of the night. Turning them over in our minds in the dark like little luminescent stones. Usually they are worries. Our restless spirits like to attack our peace, especially in the...
by Emily Dilorenzo | Dec 11, 2024 | Uncategorized, Updates
Hello Hoper, While listening to Pastor Mark preach on how Jesus is our Shepherd this past Sunday and reading Psalm 23, I remembered a version of that Psalm I’d read that really got into my psyche and caused me to truly appreciate what it means to HAVE Jesus as...
by Emily Dilorenzo | Jul 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hello Hoper, One time, at our former church, one of the members got up in front of the pulpit and began regaling us all with how holy he was because he would be fasting for the next thirty days. I forget what the point of this fast was, but I will never forget his...
by Emily Dilorenzo | Jun 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hello Hoper, Way ‘back in the day’ I had to have a heart catheterization done. This was years ago when they actually admitted you the day before, did the procedure the next day, and then sent you home the following day. That would never happen with today’s...
by Emily Dilorenzo | Jun 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hello Hoper, “Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.” This is a quote that I love from Oswald Chambers. It coincides with Isaiah 43:18 – “Forget the former things; do not...
