What’s Your Word?
I stopped making resolutions years ago. Instead, I decided to adopt a word or phrase with an accompanying scripture passage. I did not hasten to zoom in on my “word or phrase” but decided to let God lay it on…
Blue-Gray Days (by guest David Bennett)
If the first weeks of the New Year were a color they would be blue-gray — at least where I live. Days are seldom, if ever, bright blue and almost always more gray than blue. My older sister loves these…
A Different Kind of Christmas
“You are the most of every situation.” I laughed when I read the fortune. Indeed I had been “the most” over the past few weeks after finding “Rhonda” (not her real name) slumped over half-dead on the floor from near…
My Favorite Things
The mellow sound of a cello accompanied by a soft piano, the taste of my husband’s perfectly seasoned smoked ribs, the soft scrunch of my dogs’ ears, and the joy of my friend’s laughter as she shudders and squints her…
Thankful Thursday
Next Thursday we will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day taking time out to remember blessings from the good Lord throughout the year. Yeah, it’s been a hard year, but God is still God. He still bestows healing, miracles, mercy, love, grace,…
Pedals, Pipes, and Pistons
Every Sunday I am blessed to sit on an organ bench and join the worship leader and accompanists to glorify, inspire, and praise the Lord through music. Sometimes the organ provides background support; other times it leads with majestic power.…
Put on Your Kindness Necklace (by guest Debora Coty)
I could not believe my eyes. My friend Glenna had posted a simple statement on her own Facebook wall about how sad her heart was due to the current civil unrest ripping our country apart. That was all – a…
Purpose in Pain
We’ve all heard the saying, there’s no gain without pain. Henry Ward Beecher takes it a little deeper: “Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.” The Bible describes numerous instances involving pain or discomfort.…
The Gift of Pain
“Pain – the gift nobody longs for, still it comes.” The lyrics recorded by singer Greg Long years ago stir up questions. Gift? Pain – a gift? Is that possible? Dr. Paul Brand says it is. He regards physical pain…
. . . See What God Has Done (by guest J. D. Wininger)
Standing at the window, this old rancher takes a sip from his third cup of coffee. “Finally,” comes a silent thought, “it’s light enough.” As dawn breaks each morning, before I don my boots, hat, and jacket, I count. First…
