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…
Tag: giving encouragement
Help Along the Way
Husband was a college student. I had graduated and was supposed to be working to help get us by while he studied. But I was in the middle of a difficult first pregnancy that had forced me to leave the job I enjoyed. He had had to pick up the slack and work long hours…
Giving the Gift of Encouragement
Husband returns from the mailbox. “Lisa sent you something,” he says, handing me a pretty colored padded envelope. I drop everything. My friend sent me a package?! Why would she send me something? I feel like a child eagerly opening a present. A card inside reads, “I am thinking of you today with love.” It’s…