See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (Isaiah 43:19 NIV) My youngest child is close to losing his first tooth, and several times a day he makes the little incisor wiggle even more…
Lord, increase our faith! Not long before Peter was accosted by the collectors of the temple tax in Capernaum, Jesus told his disciple, “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you”…
What is the most amazing thing you ever saw God do? Almost a decade ago, I went on my first mission trip, a twenty-four-hour journey from the church parking lot to our hostel in Aflao, Ghana. I prayed more than usual in the months leading up to the trip. Two things kept coming up in…
Every two years, my husband has one of two conversations with me—either about the place we’re all moving to next or the location of his upcoming deployment. Not one to readily send my husband off to war, the deployment discussions aren’t my favorite pastime. Recently, though, we talked about our next move. Contrary to widespread…
My seven-year-old son loves working with jigsaw puzzles. It’s an activity we both genuinely enjoy. He’s graduated from the 50- and 100-piece puzzles, so I purchased some larger ones for him for Christmas. I may have gone overboard with the 500-piece puzzle with repeating candy bars throughout. He was bored within minutes because of its…
My father said something to me recently, words that have haunted many of my waking moments and caused me to seek the Lord when I wake with a pounding in my chest. Upon learning that he had been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, my father bitterly decried the latter half of his life as…