As I write this, dear Husband’s elderly mother is hospitalized due to complications from a respiratory virus. She loves God and has spent her life helping people. Going home to Heaven has great appeal to her. We’re torn between wanting her to feel better here and wanting her to feel better permanently there. Our emotions…
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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…
Grumbling or Gratitude Extreme
This was written a few days ago by a 21 year-old who we have loved since her childhood. “𝕆𝕟𝕖 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤. Bed-bound. One year ago yesterday I walked into the gym at 8:16 pm and immediately felt my legs collapse after being there for only 3 minutes.“ How do we stop complaining when…
Giving Thanks for Our Future
My friend and her husband had been raised in a cult. It was the kind of cult that controls your personal life to an alarming degree. But several years ago they began questioning the cult, realizing its teachings didn’t align with the Bible. They decided to put their faith in the Jesus of the Bible as…
Hope on the Horizon
Hope is a powerful motivator. A close friend didn’t get the post-cancer surgery report we had hoped for. You can imagine my feelings when I got a text from her this week asking if I had a good book on Heaven. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized her wisdom…
Comfort and Hope
Dear Husband and I had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend with our three oldest adult children and their families. (The younger three were prevented from joining us by the vicissitudes of life.) We enjoyed the grandchildren that could be with us. Watching them interact with each other was precious. Seeing how they have grown…