I recently heard a story about a team of Christians on mission who went into a country where bringing in Bibles was illegal. Together they memorized the New Testament so they could take it across the border with them. Can you imagine having that much truth stored up? Your brain is a search engine, and it can…
One of my favorite summer activities is to take my Bible out back to a lawn chair on a Sunday morning. It’s an unrushed hour I can spend with the Lord in the sunshine. For some reason, in the summer it seems okay to indulge in fresh air, sunshine, and time to relax. I encourage you this summer to…
I am a teacher. Doesn’t that sound great? Everyone knows what a teacher is, and everyone knows teachers are valuable and make a difference. “Teacher” is a good, solid title for what my purpose is. HOWEVER… God gives many people gifts to use in this world that have no title, aren’t easily defined, and do…
Something beautiful as a bit of medicine for the soul.
I took on a new piano student yesterday. He’s nine years old, and watching his feet swing from the piano bench made me happy. He wasn’t so sure about this whole piano lesson thing, but his mom urged him to give it a try. I went to Sweet Peaks Ice Cream and bought him a…
Someone may have to shampoo my hair for me today, because I spent a long time bent over in the garden yesterday, weeding rows of potatoes and spinach. My arms and shoulders are sore. Gardening makes Tim Keller’s words, in Counterfeit Gods, more meaningful to me today: When you “pull your emotions up by the roots,”…
Like a woman cooking a large family meal, I have a pot on every burner right now. Front right is the woman who has given up on her husband. Back right is the child still going the wrong direction. Front left is the young woman who has given up on her family. Back left is the woman who…
My daughter brought home a tomato plant from the nursery where she works, and I thought it would be a great idea to go plant it at her grandma’s house while she’s out of town. Hopefully there will be ripe tomatoes greeting her when she returns from Arizona. We found a pot at my mother-in-law’s,…
Yesterday was the first sunny day after a week of rain, so I put on walking shoes and took a slow, Sunday morning walk around the neighborhood. The wind was blowing a bit, and as I rounded a corner I could hear a flag flapping in the breeze. My eyes were drawn to the American…
Sometimes there is a richness in someone that forces us to examine our own character. May we strive to love God and love people the way this man has with his life.
My dad was doing a tour of duty in Vietnam when I was a baby. He saw unspeakable horrors there. Because of this experience, my dad was obsessed with war. In our living room we had a Time full-volume pictorial set on WWII. We watched war movies and documentaries about emaciated Jews in concentration camps…
The phone range by my bedside at 5:30 yesterday morning –my husband calling from Tucson, Arizona. He informed me his uncle had passed away in the night. I hung up the phone, and grief pushed the air out of my lungs. It was only six months ago that my preacher husband said the memorial words…
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