This week, I just had to share a post by my husband, Phil. He recounts here a real life-and-death experience that shook up his experience of Easter. This story really gripped my heart and helped me refocus on God during this season of Lent. I hope you find it both challenging and encouraging as well. […]
Today is Ash Wednesday – the first day of Lent, the season leading up to Easter designed to turn our hearts back toward God. Often when people think of this season, they reduce it to one question: What are you giving up for Lent? Although giving something up for Lent is a practice that’s intended […]
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– Only One Day Till Christmas – Ironically, the following blog was written a day before Christmas, but due to some technical difficulties with our website, I was unable to post it until today. I say “ironically,” because this post is about the challenge of waiting. I was ready to post this, but I had […]
– Invitation to An Unexpected Christmas – Christmas is a great time for the unexpected. One of the best unexpected gifts I ever received came from my husband, Phil, seven years ago. It came on a Christmas after a long stretch of financial struggle. Our family had been living with my parents for more than […]
– Invitation to Open Your Hand – Have you ever heard the story about how to catch a monkey? Supposedly in Africa and India, the natives will hollow out a coconut and put a peanut or banana inside. When the monkey reaches inside to grad the food and wrap their fist around it, they are […]
– Invitation to A Flash Mob – The Bible tells us that the shepherds “made known what had been told them about this child; and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them.” (Luke 2:17) These guys could not keep this news to themselves. They had front row tickets to the […]
– Invitation to Re-Gift – Have you ever experienced that awkward moment of opening a gift and thinking, “What on earth am I going to do with this?” Then you try to think of someone to pass the gift onto. Or it gets tossed into the “white elephant” pile, for the next gift exchange. Most […]
– Invitation to Be Amazed – Often we’ll be getting ready to go somewhere and I’ll tell my sons, “Okay boys, time to get your shoes on.” So off they’ll trot to find their shoes and inevitably, at least one of them will say, “Mom, I can’t find my shoes anywhere.” And as they’re saying […]
– Invitation to Remember – It’s raining today and I’m thinking about my father-in-law, Murt, who passed away four years ago. I’ve been thinking about him a lot recently and wishing he could be here to enjoy Christmas with us. Alice, my mother-in-love (as she prefers to be called), will be arriving in a couple […]
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