Author: Karen S. Roberts

• Thank you to our veterans, active duty military, reservists, and their families

                      Thank you to America’s veterans, active duty military, reservists, and their families for your service, your sacrifice, and your dedication. You have honored Americans and preserved our freedom. Thank you!

  Karen S. Roberts

  November 11, 2014

  Freedom

• Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin Wall, 25 years later

  Today marked the 25th Anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. That day was emotional for Keith and me. He was still in the Air Force, and we were living in O’Fallon, Illinois. I cried as I watched. When we lived in Italy, Keith and I traveled to West Berlin. He had a…

  Karen S. Roberts

  November 9, 2014

  Freedom

• How are you honoring your body?

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.” Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely take care of…

  Karen S. Roberts

  November 8, 2014

  Christian Walk, God’s glory, Hope

  body, burial, death, dying, God, grave, heaven, Holy Spirit, honor, temple

• Mama, see you in heaven

      Clara Viola Nistetter August 26, 1925 to November 2 , 2014 Absent from the body, but present with the Lord.   He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1 Mama, Throughout the years, you and Daddy dwelt in the shelter of…

  Karen S. Roberts

  November 2, 2014

  Christian Walk, Hope, Promises

  death, dying, heaven, hope, Jesus

• Smiling toward heaven and eternity

   Mama’s about to cross the Jordan River into the Promised Land … Heaven with all the Glory of the Lord About a year ago, I took a six-week course to become a volunteer in the No One Dies Alone program. If patients have no one to be with them while they are actively dying, volunteers who…

  Karen S. Roberts

  October 26, 2014

  Book Reviews, Christian Walk, God’s glory, Hope, Promises, Salvation

  Christian walk, death, dying, eternity, God’s love, heaven, hope, Urgent Whispers

• Waiting to enter the joy of the Lord

  For You are the God of my salvation. For You I wait all the day. Psalm 25:5 Mama is waiting on the Lord. She’s waiting for Jesus to say “Come.” Come to heaven. Come to the joy of the Lord. Come and be healed. Come, I’ll wipe your tears away. Come and see My glory.…

  Karen S. Roberts

  October 22, 2014

  Christian Walk, God’s glory, Promises, Salvation

  death, dying, God, heaven, Jesus, joy, rewards, sickness, Wait on the Lord

• Mama is walking a jewel-studded path toward heaven

  Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads. … the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the…

  Karen S. Roberts

  October 10, 2014

  Christian Walk, Hope, Promises

  Christian walk, Christianity, death, heaven, hope, Jesus, witness

• Such A Time As This

  Let God, Let God, Live it Out. Faith in action. The Lord bless you richly

  Karen S. Roberts

  October 5, 2014

  Promises

• Disciple

  You, O Lord are a healing balm around me. Your right hand unfolds treasures forevermore.

  Karen S. Roberts

  October 5, 2014

  Promises

• Lord, I don’t know what to pray!

  In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according…

  Karen S. Roberts

  September 26, 2014

  Christian Walk, Hope, Prayer, Promises

  dying, God, help, Holy Spirit, Pain, Prayer, torture, trials, trouble