Husband’s close relative gave birth to conjoined twins. One baby died a month later after the separation surgery. The other died less than four years later after suffering multiple health issues and surgeries. Yet the grieving mother put herself in the hands of her loving heavenly Father and was enabled to move forward, even having…
Category: Strength
God Stories
Happy tears welled up in my eyes. I was in shock in a good way. Our lifetime friends were leaving our house. They were already in their running car and I was bidding them goodbye. I said to the husband, “Have as good a time as possible visiting your mom.” To my utter surprise, he…
Privilege
They were a despised minority in a third-world country. The father of three died very young, leaving his wife with tiny twin girls and a pre-schooler. The struggling young wife became overwhelmed and lost her sanity. The pre-schooler was taken in by an aunt who cared nothing for her and treated her like a…
Appointments
Click, click, click, click. Today was a beautiful morning and my car windows were down as I drove into the little town five miles from our house. Uh, oh, I shouldn’t be hearing a click with each rotation of the tires. Better pull over and see what’s going on. There were plenty of parking spots…
Happy and Strong
Why am I thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas when it isn’t even summer yet?! What do the holidays have to do with my burning questions about whether God is happy and whether he’s happy with me? Some of you can identify with where I’m coming from in my hang-up with feelings of falling short. Some…
When We Don’t Get What We Pray For
We’ve had so many undeniable answers to our prayers lately. God provided a car that met our needs and our budget, (Sold the RV we lived in for a year while we built our house, then bought the car for that exact amount to the penny.) A man we didn’t know from our church did…