Tuesdays with Tracy
March 17, 2026
Our Ability in Christ
Before my car wreck and brain injury, I didn't appreciate the word "able" like I should have. I'm not "able" to do a lot of things including walking, talking, etc. Actually, we all get upset when we want to do something and cannot. We are in for a rude awakening when we realize that this life is not about us and the abilities we have.
When everything is going wrong and we are stuck in the "I cannot syndrome", maybe we have the wrong focus. We don't need to be reminded that we have no ability in ourselves; we need to be reminded of our ability in Christ. "We can do all things through Him who strengthens us". He is able, when we are not.
March 10, 2026
After the Cliff
I have been climbing the “head injury cliff” for almost forty years. It has many downs, but the Lord has given me many ups. With His help, I have reached the “top”, but I am not through. He has called me to do the “unthinkable” as some might call it. He wants me to step off the cliff and trust Him to catch me. Such a move is not a natural instinct, but over the years trusting the Lord, no matter what, has become a spiritual instinct.
All of us are climbing our own “cliff” made up of many ups and downs. When we make it to “our” top, we think we are through, but we are not. The Lord then asks us to take that leap of faith trusting Him to catch us and supply all our needs. AFTER THE CLIFF, we have landed in the arms of our Lord and there is not a safer place.
March 3, 2026
Bankrupt to Riches
When someone declares bankruptcy, it means they cannot pay their debts. As Christians, we are spiritually bankrupt; we do not have the resources to pay off our sin-debt. Until we truly understand the cross, how can we fully appreciate what Jesus did for us? The apostle Paul said, "There is no good thing in me that is in my sinful flesh"(Rom. 8:18). All our sins were laid on Jesus, and He took the punishment we deserve so we can have eternal life. "There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Rom. 1:1)
We are thankful for a lot, but we can mostly be thankful that our sin-dept was paid. Our entrance into heaven will not be because of anything we have done; it is all about Jesus and what He has done for us. Because of the cross, we have gone from BANKRUPT TO RICHES.
February 24, 2026
In Christ Alone
Jesus tells it like it is in John 14:6 when He states, "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." There are a lot of different ways to reach our destination. Not true when we die. We cannot just "hope" we get to heaven. We must know that because Jesus is our Savior, Christians will make it to heaven and fall at His feet in praise and adoration.
The older I get, I see how lost I was living for Tracy. We need to be thankful that our Father loves us enough to put us on the right path. As we travel with Jesus to heaven, we will reach our destination because of Jesus. IN CHRIST ALONE we find our true hope and joy.
February 17, 2026
Trash to Treasure
I love to shop at second-hand clothing stores. People give great clothes they consider trash. That backs up the saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure". Every time I shop, I feel l as if I am going on a treasure hunt!
God is busy turning the trash of our lives into treasure. Before my wreck, I was a college freshman having a great time but was not committed to my Christian faith. After my accident, God took my trash and started changing me. God has taken the trash of my disabled life and made a treasure out of it. It is a treasure to know God as my Lord and Savior.
We should cooperate and make the transformation by getting to know God and trust Him. God does His part, but we must do ours too! When His work becomes a partnership, we see that we have gone from being self-centered to being God-centered. God has taken our TRASH and turned it into TREASURE.
February 10, 2026
Running on Empty
Sometimes we think that when we have accepted Jesus Christ as our savior, our lives will finally be "happy" and we won't have an empty feeling anymore. However, salvation doesn't always equal satisfaction.
Salvation is a gift from God, but we have to stop trying to satisfy ourselves the worldly way. We tend to try to fill our emptiness with "things" thinking they are going to satisfy us. True satisfaction only comes when our emptiness is filled with the fullness of Christ. We have to deliberately surrender ALL parts of our lives to Him trusting that God is sovereign over every detail. We will never be fully satisfied in this world, but we can be thankful that we can have full satisfaction in Christ.
Some of us might be so disappointed that our lives aren't going as we had planned. I would like to share a quote by Corrie Ten Boon. "If we look to the world, we get distressed. If we look to ourselves, we get depressed, but if we look to Christ, we will find rest."
Looking to God for our satisfaction rather than anyone or anything else, is the only way that we will be filled up when we are RUNNING ON EMPTY.
February 3, 2026
Fairest Lord Jesus
We sometimes think that God is not fair and just, but that is so wrong. The most unfair thing that ever happened was the execution of Jesus Christ. He did nothing wrong but was brutally punished on a cross even though it was undeserving. He loves us so much that He went through all that unfairness, so we could go through all our unfairness in this life. No, that wasn't fair for Him to have to die a sinless death on a cross, but He did that for us, so He could turn the unfairness into fair.
The next time we have something that happens to us that we feel is unfair and start to question God, we need to remember that He knows just how we feel. After we assess the fairness of the situation, we will agree that He lives up to His name: “Fairest Lord Jesus".
January 27, 2026
Prayer Comes First
We feel since Jesus loves us, our problems will go away. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Christians will not have problems. In fact, some Christians have been murdered for their faith. Jesus says in His Word that we will have tribulation, but how we choose to handle our problems is what matters to Him. When we are facing problems in life, big or small, we have a choice to make.
We can try to solve it with our own strength which will get us nowhere, or we can give it to the Lord to guide us and give us strength. Our priorities are out of order when we forget that our Lord is bigger than any difficulty we have. He wants us to remember that PRAYER COMES FIRST.
January 20, 2026
Nifty Feeling
We can stop some things, but we cannot stop time. After my car wreck and head injury, I was not supposed to live to see my twentieth birthday. God's grace has allowed me to live to see my fifty seventh birthday! Although my life is not like I planned, I am able to praise God despite my situation. Instead of all the negative things I could say about turning fifty-seven, I am choosing to live like it is my "Nifty fifties".
Jesus has saved our lives from the malignant cancer of sin; therefore, we are able to enjoy eternity with Him. There are a lot of things about this life that are not nifty, but we can agree that what Jesus did for us so we can all have that NIFTY feeling.
January 13, 2026
Tuck Our Worries Away
There are some of us that if we didn't have something to worry about, we would create something. We worry a lot, and often we have a good reason to! We must saturate our minds with the Word of God and all His promises to us. It has been said that promises were meant to be broken, but God has never broken one of his promises. We can live a worry-free life because we know that the Lord is in control and is working out the details for our good and His glory.
When we have a Godly perspective on life, we can tuck all our worries away. We trust in our God more than we trust in our circumstances. That is how we honor Him. We "walk by faith and not by sight".
No worries this week because of Jesus-T
January 6, 2026
New Year, New Path
We can get ourselves stuck living our hum-drum lives. There seems to be no freedom, and our daily activities can bog us down. Over time we form our habits, and we get stuck in the boring rut of routine. Our habits can enslave us. God loves us and didn't create us to be stuck in a rut. He can set us on the right path that we are supposed to be on. Only God has the power to change our boring rut of routine into an exciting groove of grace. We need to be so thankful to God when we are set free and have been put on the right path...........the exciting path that leads to Him.