Each of us is an Innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus. ~Neal A. Maxwell In August 1993, we drove from Colorado to New York with a twenty-two-month-old and a three-year-old. The first evening we stopped around seven to get a room. Town after town along the interstate met us with the…
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isa. 9:6 ESV) My worst Christmas was the year we almost had a white Christmas. Snow is a rare event in southern Louisiana. And snow on…
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are far too easily pleased.” ~C.S. Lewis “What do you want?” Sometimes we don’t know how to take that question, right? It could be asked in an annoyed voice—like a big sister rolling her eyes at a little one…
After a grueling season of working twelve-hour days, seven days a week, my husband’s time off finally arrived! When you work in football, you do not have the freedom to choose your vacation time, but you do get almost four glorious weeks off each summer. We had made our plans, filling these long-anticipated days with…
“For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.” 2 Timothy 4:3 (CSB) Algebra nearly did me in last year. Twenty-five years ago, I competed on my school’s math team….
Have you ever had a moment when you thought to yourself, That was a total God thing?” Or perhaps something that seemed like a coincidence but was too perfectly timed to be just a coincidence? You knew deep down God was working–it was a God Moment! My family recently had one of these. We took…