Photo Credit: Flavio Takemoto, via Free Images I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. My husband is hurting, and my best friend is hurting. We’ve laid two loved ones to rest this year. Grieving is hard. I wish I could make things easier for my hurting loved ones. I wish I could take…
Photo Credit: PDP, via Pixabay I think we’re sometimes in the habit of seeing only thimblefuls of God’s activity occurring in our lives–and considering that to be normal. We think small things are all that God is capable of doing because that’s all we’ve ever seen Him do. So we walk down to the…
Photo Credit: PDM, via Pixabay You know that moment when you know you are about to crash — you can see the other vehicle coming straight for you at the last second, and you hit the brakes and hold your breath and lock your arms and your gut screams “Stop now.” That happened to me…
Photo Credit: Alex Gonzalez, via SXC My husband and I have a tradition. After Christmas, we drive around the neighborhood to see which neighbor is the last to take down the Christmas lights. We head up the street and around the bend and back on the other side carefully inspecting each house. …
Photo Credit: Damien Moorhouse, via SXC Tonight at the midweek service, the sermon was about storms. At one point, we turned in our Bibles to Acts 27 where Paul is on a ship that is in peril. The waves are threatening to thrash the boat into the rocks, so some of the sailors try…
“A voice said, “Climb.” And he said, “How shall I climb? the mountains are so steep that I cannot climb.” The voice said, “Climb or die.”He said, “But how? I see no way up those steep ascents. This that is asked is too hard for me.”The voice said, “Climb, or perish, soul and body…