Shalom? When my Worst Fear Strikes? Do you believe God wants us to experience a sense of His inner shalom most all the time? I do. Although I’ve had to wrestle my way through that belief all over again in recent weeks . . . Our daughter has recently received the dreaded verdict – cancer! […]
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Heart Grip
Heart Grip I’m processing. And in this chapter of life it seems there is so much to process. Last year’s posts uncovered some of what was going on inside this blogger. In the early days and weeks of 2018, . . . more to process! Sharon and I returned from our tenure of missionary service […]
How Do You Keep Your Sanity While Living in Survival Mode?
How Do You Keep Your Sanity While Living in Survival Mode? Have you ever experienced living in survival mode? When was it? What were the circumstances surrounding that period in your life? How does it feel now as you bring up those memories? How did you find your way through to some semblance of equilibrium […]
Moving into the New Year with Fear or Hope?
Moving into the New Year with Fear or Hope? When did you last find yourself in the dark of the night wrestling with discouragement, perhaps even depression or despair? How was your experience entering this new year? Did you step into it gingerly with trepidation and fear? Or did you bustle forward with anticipation and […]
Heartbeat ~ A Christmas Reflection
Heartbeat ~ A Christmas Reflection ~ Parents for the first time. Heartbeat. And each time a new little one comes into a home where Christ’s love reigns. That cherished little heartbeat. Life. All the wonder, all the potential. Mary had her first experience of that wonder. In a cattle shed. Wonder, no less! Joseph […]
6 Reasons to Live a Sustainable Lifestyle on the Land
6 Reasons to Live a Sustainable Lifestyle on the Land What an incredible love gift God has given us in the land! When you think about it, everything that sustains life comes from the land. I’ve found it interesting that it seems God is calling many people these days to sustainable living in connection with […]
A Grateful Heart
A Grateful Heart Yes, it’s the time in America we gather with family. Ponder the year. Thank Father for blessings. Lift hearts to the Sovereign himself. His incredible handiwork. The universe. Its incredible, awesome, and intricate working. The earth still turning. Daylight, sunrise. Actually incredible—His profound mercies toward our human family—yes, all of us! I […]
Confusion and “the Gray”
Confusion and “the Gray” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize recipient for literature, following his exile from Russia and his salutary reception into the United States, was invited to speak at Harvard University.[1] Solzhenitsyn, having considered darksome developments in his country of origin, had written of “the moral cancer at [its] very heart”. “Looking at the ruins […]
Definitions, Doctrine, and Destiny
Definitions, Doctrine, and Destiny A Christian minister of influence looked at the reporter, and with gracious spirit, shared that he would not perform marriages for persons of the same sex. For him, he explained, to do so would be a sin against God, and thus, he could not do it. He was aware of the […]
Barnyard Wisdom for Spiritual Parenting
Barnyard Wisdom for Spiritual Parenting Barnyard wisdom is fascinating to observe! I watched Mr. Rooster King Kong strut around protectively with his flock of hens. He called them to his discovery of a cluster of earthworms by a woodpile. Then he cried the alarm when a hawk circled. A mother hen clucked to her brood […]
