Offering Hope in an Uncertain World
I am not a missions girl. In fact, at the risk of having you think me un-godly, I will confess to you that “Missions Sunday” is my least favorite Sunday of the year. If you haven’t been to one, allow me to describe it for …
(Inside: Helping the hungry in our world) Who does your heart break for? We sat out in a field, away from the city, away from the village homes. Banana trees were across the dirt road standing tall and full. A small tent had been set …
Think about the people who are closest to you in your life… that one person you go to right away when you are in trouble. The person you can talk to about anything. Do you have their face in your mind? Now, think about how …
What is the one thing in your life that you regret more than anything? The one thing that you don’t share with other people. The thing that if you could, you would go back and re-do or take back? Everyone has something like that. It’s …
I was at the funeral of a friend of a friend. It was someone I didn’t know well, and someone who died too soon. We were in a church I had never been to before; traditional hard pews, and a pipe organ in the back …
A Child’s Question The other night, my 10-year-old son and I were in the kitchen together washing dishes. As we talked he suddenly asked me, “Mom, what do you think is the most important job of a parent?” Knowing my kind-hearted son, he wanted to …
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Do as I say, not as I do?” Maybe you were told this as a child, or maybe it was just implied. “The rules are different for you than they are for me.” “I can do these things, but …
The summer my oldest son turned one, we sold our house and planned to move into a larger one. Our house sold in 4 days, and we were left scrambling. We began searching for homes and over the next three months, we had found two …
Looking for True North Living in a house full of boys, you’d think that I’d know exactly how a compass works. I mean, I think I do…you hold the small circular device in your hand, and there is a needle on the face of the …
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