Our family is hurting. One of us is experiencing a major health challenge and all the rest of us are feeling the pain. Different personalities respond differently. How do you respond when someone you love is facing something hard? Knowing we’re hurting, a dear friend sent us a podcast about God’s life being…
Category: Strength
God Stories=Good Stories
Just today I heard God stories. We had eaten a meal at the home of a couple who live near us and we were seated comfortably in their living room with the foothills of the Cascade Mountains spread out before us on the other side of their big windows. The conversation turned to how they…
Where to Run
Were you ever ‘blown out of the water’ by unwelcome news? Blindsided by something unexpected? Where do you turn in the moments and days following when your brain works overtime conjuring “what if”s? When your last thought before sleep and first thought upon awakening is sad and fearful how do you redirect? When you feel…
Bubbling
Did you see that viral video of a parched koala in the area of the devastating bushfires in Australia who stood on the road and begged for water from passing cyclists? The poor koala climbed right up on a bicycle to get a drink from the cyclist’s water bottle. It drank and drank. Have you…
Halloween Thoughts
Halloween brings our gaze to the dark side. We recoil from this emphasis on darkness, possibly because it reminds us of the dark times in our own lives. . . those dark days and nights that were brought on by pain, loss, depression, loneliness, or just a string of little disappointments that threatened to undo us….