I have a confession. I have a brown thumb, not a green thumb. My gardening skills are never wildly successful, and my poor flowers tend to meet an untimely demise. I joke with my husband that I’m grateful my ability to keep our children healthy and thriving has no correlation to my ability to grow…
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Prov. 3:5-6 NIV) I experience recurring panic-inducing dreams where I’m in a car I can’t control. It could be that the brakes don’t work, or I’m…
When my son was working out the creation story in his little mind, trying to apply color to a concept that should never be seen in black and white, he asked me, “If God made the universe, what made God?” Not knowing the answer, I came up with a response that I hoped would make…
My cursor hovered over the word Send. My fingers felt frozen in place, unable to reply to the email and deliver my decision. Maybe it wasn’t a life-or-death decision, but it wasn’t a trivial, what-am-I-going-to-cook-for-dinner-type decision, either. Cautious person that I am, I’d deliberated for a long time. I’d made lists of pros and cons…
My gardens have runneth over. The forty-eight tomatoes I planted back in May didn’t seem like enough to feed my family their favorite tomato-based foods for the next year. But in August? I’m harvesting five-gallon buckets full of the luscious red orbs, cooking them down with seasonings, and canning them for future feasts. Transplanting those…
“Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God—who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be given to him.” (Prov. 3:5-6 NIV) Trusting and having faith is more often than not easier said than done. Right now, many of us have a lot of decisions to make with a lot of…