Krista Cannon, Licensed Professional Counselor

05/22/2025

These are good ideas for self care. What are ways you stay connected to others and yourself?

09/04/2022

An important reminder for us all…

08/10/2022

04/30/2022

Let’s redefine strength…

04/16/2022

Have a blessed Easter.

Jesus is silent on Saturday. The women have anointed his body and placed it in Joseph’s tomb. The cadaver of Christ is as mute as the stone which guards it. He spoke much on Friday. He will liberate the slaves of death on Sunday. But on Saturday, Jesus is silent.

So is God. He made himself heard on Friday. He tore the curtains of the temple, opened the graves of the dead, rocked the earth, blocked the sun of the sky, and sacrificed the Son of Heaven. Earth heard much of God on Friday.

Nothing on Saturday. Jesus is silent. God is silent. Saturday is silent.

Easter weekend discussions tend to skip Saturday. Friday and Sunday get the press. The crucifixion and resurrection command our thoughts. But don’t ignore Saturday. You have them, too.

Silent Saturdays. The day between the struggle and the solution; the question and the answer; the offered prayer and the answer thereof.

Saturday’s silence torments us. Is God angry? Did I disappoint him? God knows Jesus is in the tomb, why doesn’t He do something? Or, in your case God knows your career is in the tank, your finances are in the pit, your marriage is in a mess. Why doesn’t He act? What are you supposed to do until He does?

You do what Jesus did. Lie still. Stay silent. Trust God. Jesus died with this conviction: “You will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay” (Acts 2:27 NIV).

Jesus knew God would not leave him alone in the grave. You need to know, God will not leave you alone with your struggles. His silence is not his absence, inactivity is never apathy. Saturdays have their purpose. They let us feel the full force of God’s strength. Had God raised Jesus fifteen minutes after the death of His son, would we have appreciated the act? Were He to solve your problems the second they appear, would you appreciate His strength?

For His reasons, God inserts a Saturday between our Fridays and Sundays. If today is one for you, be patient. As one who endured the silent Saturday wrote: “Be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord” (James 5:7 NKJV).

02/12/2022

Love this!

04/03/2021

Have a blessed Easter!

02/03/2021

Another great quote from Lysa TerKeurst!

Beautiful friend, that person or people who hurt you—they’ve caused enough pain. There’s been enough damage done.

I know what it’s like to want them to own how much they’ve hurt you.

But we can’t wait for another person to do something to make us feel better about the situation. If we need another person to make things right before we move toward change, we might stay unhealed for a very long time. We will paralyze our progress waiting for something that may or may not ever happen.

The people who hurt us may be the cause of the pain. But they are not capable of being the healer of our pain. Or the restorer of our lives.

This is where my healing fell apart time and time again. Blame hands the power to change over to the person who hurt me. It says, as long as they refuse to acknowledge what they’ve done as wrong, I feel powerless to change. Or, even if they do acknowledge what they did as wrong, if the wrong isn’t made right, life will forever feel different, which also makes me feel powerless to change.

So might you dare to whisper along with me, “Today is the day it stops.” Say it with me.

“Today is my day to stop the grim, hopeless pursuit of expecting the other person to make this right. You are my Healer, Lord. You are my Restorer. And I’m placing my hope and trust in You so that I can receive the glorious hope-filled possibilities of this new day."

12/08/2020

‘Tis the season for joy. Advent. A time of preparation. A time for getting to know this God who loved us so much He searched for us....A time for understanding that it’s not what’s under the tree, but what’s in our hearts that matters. Gwen Ellis