Life in a Broken World

  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…

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…

Empowered

Remember when you were a kid and you thought you knew what you wanted to be when you grew up?  I went through a stage when I wanted to be a chemist.  I liked science and was given a book of simple experiments.  I had a tiny cabinet with my supplies, beakers and test tubes…

Good News for the New Year

Have you ever considered the journeys of Mary and Joseph and how they resemble many of our journeys in life?  We all have unplanned, inconvenient journeys in our lives that we’d rather not take.   I’m sure you can think of times in your life that were hard and perhaps unexpected.  I can think of some…

Stumbling Behind in Mary’s Footsteps

I’m embarrassed to admit that I got sideways over several small Christmas preparations.  What’s worse is that these were first-world issues that I’m lucky to deal with while many in the world don’t have enough to eat.  But that didn’t prevent me from getting upset.  Because I didn’t plan ahead, our Christmas family get-together totally fell…

Love, Joy, Peace

There were no Christmas trees, pretty lights, Christmas movies, catchy holiday tunes, cozy fires, or soft blankets.  We didn’t have phones, computers, or a TV.  The closest family member was an ocean away.  We didn’t have holiday food.  We had electricity only a few hours a day.  It had been a year and a half…