Two weeks is a long time when you’re waiting for life-changing news. I was advised not to tell my soldier-husband, deployed to fight a war called Desert Storm, that something could be terribly wrong with the baby inside my womb. Distractions could risk his life. So, I wrote this frightening story in my journal for him to read later. I remember …
New 30 Day Challenge: Thanking God for His Answers before He Answers
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful….(Col. 4:2). I’ve wrestled with the whole concept of prayer. Like being in the middle of a dream, truths about prayer echo in and out of my subconscious mingled with my own frail human understanding–or trying to understand. Lies of this world disguise themselves as truth complicating what used to be so …
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Purpose Beyond Today: Praying for our Families
Are you surprised when God answers prayer quickly? The other night as I sat through a bitter cold lacrosse game bundled up–my toes frozen despite my preparation, my heart sank farther down to the pit of my stomach with each minute as I watched my son stand on the sidelines with no coat or cold weather clothes under …
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Bite of Bread: Spending the Week with Jesus (March 24-30)
What’s your favorite story of Jesus? Is it His birth? Is it when He healed the demon possessed man in the caves? Is it when He called Lazarus out of the grave? What about the time a woman who had been bleeding for 12 years reached out and touched the tassels on His prayer shawl? She knew she was healed …
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Living with Purpose beyond today: Leaving a Legacy
…He also set eternity into the hearts of men. (Eccl. 3:11) I held her wrinkled, gnarled hand gently. The clippers in my hand only snipped tiny pieces of a nail at a time. It took longer this way, but one big clip always caused her to jump. I’m not sure if it really hurt. But arthritis fills each joint in …
