Have you prayed for something year after year, yet you don’t see an answer? I know my faith has worn thin after decades of prayer for a certain thing without seeing results. If you’re like me, you’ll get a faith boost from seeing how God revealed himself to someone who was struggling in their wait…
Author: Grandma Grace
Operation Christmas Child
I bet you’re already getting bombarded by ads for Christmas gifts. Am I right?! But just humor me for a few minutes. On Sunday, at the front of our church were stacks of shoeboxes. Not just any shoebox, but red and green shoeboxes ready to be filled with small gifts for special kids. Many of…
Choose a Red Tomato
As we stared outside this morning at a dreary, gray sky dear Husband said, “We get to choose what kind of day we will have. We can choose to be happy.” Although a native Oregonian, he has lived in sunny climes long enough as he says, “to know better than to like the gray.” But…
Four Lessons I’m Learning from Our Dogs
1. Each personality has its strengths and weaknesses. I can appreciate and benefit from the different strengths. I can offer compassion and patience for their weaknesses. Often their greatest strength is their greatest weakness. Boon is intelligent, intuitive, alert, and quick to ‘read’ us. He is also uptight, and obsessive. When Boon has planted…
Tricky Transitions
A friend’s 45-year-old daughter was the primary caregiver for her dearly loved father-in-law during his years-long illness. Since he died six weeks ago she has been experiencing serious physical symptoms that mirror her emotional state. Her doctor called it Broken Heart Syndrome when he had to drain a liter of fluid from around her heart…