A few years ago I read Don Piper’s story and then heard him speak about being pronounced dead and spending 90 minutes in heaven. As intriguing as the heaven part was, I was more emotionally impacted in hearing about the months of surgeries and excruciating pain and depression he suffered afterward. How does a man endure such…
I’ll be frosting four dozen chocolate cupcakes for a friend’s wedding today. So when I came across this photographer’s website my heart was stirred. The photographer describes why she likes to show up early to weddings and capture pictures “before it all begins”. You have to see these beautiful pictures. Paul tells the believers in Corinth,…
Both kids were gone yesterday afternoon, so Matt and I found shade in the backyard and sat down in our plastic green Adirondack chairs. Besides watching our black lab (Tell Sackett –named after a Louis L’Amour character) chase flies, we had a nice hour to talk about life and listen to the humming birds. We…
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…
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…
I just spent the last two hours pacing my house like a caged animal. Praying. I’ve been seeking God’s direction about something and just haven’t been able to put my finger on which way to go. Can you imagine what it says to God –when we want to know His way so badly we can’t…
There are always two weeks of skeptical waiting. I follow Matt along the edge of the garden where we do a lot of squinting, trying to identify if that is a blade of grass or possibly the first green onion shoot. Just a blade of grass, I say. No sign of spinach, basil or potatoes either. Me, ever…
Read this and consider that God is that kind of teacher.
I recently received an email from a friend, with three words that kept me going at a time when I wanted to give up writing. Amazing the power in three words coming to me at just the right time. I have been learning recently that we are not to seek the approval of others, as we serve Christ, yet the…
I don’t know who you are –maybe the life of the party? The get-it-done-right? The serve-quietly-from-the-back? As for me, I’m the bulldozer. Sometimes this is good. Like when an old structure needs to come down and be carried away. Or when new ground needs to be dug up. Or when something needs to be pushed…
Last week I wrote a blog post and received some fair criticism from a valuable person in my life. That left me in sober spirits, questioning what I’m writing. So I spent the rest of the day taking this concern to the Lord. (It’s always wise to seriously consider the truth God might be sending through criticism.) …
I sent in a whole stack of devotional writings to a publication. They said, “Allow six months for a response.” Well, it’s been six months, and I just received a whole stack of rejection emails. And I think back to when I had to bend down on my knees to look my little boy in…
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