Here’s what my quiet times often look like here at home: I sit down, open my Bible and perhaps a devotional, then start to pray. Sometimes I make it through my entire prayer without thinking about the laundry, or dishes that need to be done, or mail that needs to be sorted, bills to be […]
The Best Two Questions
Over the weekend my Pastor wove into his sermon two questions Christians need to ask themselves and other Christians in their life. These two questions are familiar in our church, but they’re so foundational to a Christian’s life I’m all for repeating the idea. So what should we be asking ourselves, and other Christ-followers around […]
God’s Love & Jupiter
My husband and I belong to a small group of fellow Christians where we explore various Bible studies and discuss topics relevant to our faith—all the while enjoying friendships and community with people we’ve grown to love over the years. Recently someone asked what makes us feel loved by God. My first thought, after having […]
Beautiful Destruction?
Over the weekend my husband and I were talking about how there are at least two kinds of destruction. One is by man and the other by God. Although the result of destruction from either source can be devastating, we were observing that when God destroys something there is often beauty in it. Consider a […]
A Lesson From My Son
As many of you know who follow my blog, my oldest son suffers from Fragile X Syndrome. This means there is a protein missing from his brain that’s necessary for effective learning . . . and so, learning is difficult. Fragile X is called a spectrum disorder because patients who have it can fall on […]
Why Pray?
I’ve often had a sort of see-saw prayer life, where prayer shifts from an ongoing offering of thoughts, praise and pleas from me to God throughout the day to other times when I pray or exchange thoughts with God less often than I’d like to admit. But at church yesterday our pastor renewed my appreciation […]
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