“He will cover you with his feathers; you will take refuge under his wings. His faithfulness will be a protective shield.” (Psalm 91:4 NIV) In January, the general consensus on the internet seemed to be that winter felt like it was taking forever—and not in a good way. In addition to several dreary, rainy, and…
We didn’t have much of an opportunity to prepare, and we certainly didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into; not many parents do with special needs children. He was only six weeks old when we brought him home with a feeding tube and six different medications to be administered around the clock. Only six…
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place,” ~G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy Many people spend some portion of their adult lives trying to get back home spiritually. We sense we’ve lost our…
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your cares on him, because he cares about you. (1 Peter 5:6-7 CSB) Teaching is the most difficult and most rewarding job I have ever had. However, it took me a while to get there. When I first…
Jesus had a special friendship with the siblings Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. The Gospels highlight this in a few places, especially Jesus’ interactions with Mary. My favorite story about Jesus and these siblings is in John 11. It’s the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. John 11 begins by stating that Lazarus was…
The truck eased off the highway and came to a stop in a cloud of dust. It was day five of our cross-country road trip, towing our new home behind us, and our tank was nearing empty—both literally and figuratively. Nevada stretched before us, reaching as far as our eyes could see. A narrow ribbon…