While studying for the children’s Bible class on Exodus, some crazy things struck me. How many times had I read these chapters and yet they always yield new treasures! Hope you find new treasures, today! . . . They had been miraculously delivered from one of the most powerful nations in the world yet only…
Staying in My Lane
As we were leaving a dear friend’s house a few days ago, she handed me a jar of her delicious homemade pickled beets and kindly offered, “I could teach you how to make these.” My brain raced. I wanted to spend time with her, and I didn’t want to appear lazy. But my body struggles…
Perseverance
When we were serving in Indonesia, we met a mini missionary! She was tiny physically, 4’7” tall, but huge in heart. Not only was she very small, she was severely crippled by polio since childhood. What was a crippled, single woman doing in a remote, steeply mountainous stone age village? Against all odds, she…
Unexpected
This week marked the 56th anniversary of my mother’s death. My parents had been separated off and on during my growing up years and when my mother died, my father was living out of state. For some reason, no one felt it was a good idea for me as a high schooler to live alone!…
For Love’s Sake
They were being unreasonable. Illogical. Wasteful. Why spend a lot of money doing something that was already done? Why jump into a project that was ill-planned? One of them was so emotional that two extra-terrestrial beings didn’t get her attention. She even made an outlandish offer to singlehandedly carry a grown man’s dead body plus…
Tender Care
The tenderness of Jesus even under the worst circumstances is astounding. This is the account by an eyewitness of what happened as Jesus was nearing death. The interchange between Jesus hanging on the cross and his mother, and Jesus and his best friend was recorded by the one spoken to – John. “Near the cross of…