I may be a little too sensitive about this, but I don’t like people making assumptions about me based on my perceived age. I’ve experienced others’ faulty perceptions about me because of how old I look, even beyond the fact that clerks no longer ask if I qualify for a senior discount; they just give…
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1 KJV) I sat in chapel at Bible college my freshman year, starry-eyed with dreams for the future. I was convinced that being a missionary was my destiny, and I was excited to fulfill my purpose in the world….
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” (Psalm 73:26 ESV) I recently had lunch with a friend who lost her husband to complications of multiple sclerosis last summer. We talked about grief and how she’s learning to navigate life as a widow, finding…
I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. (Malachi 3:6 NIV) Around this time every year, I begin to see New Year memes popping up in my social media feeds. You know the ones. They typically say something like “New Year, New Me.” They talk about cutting weight or cutting crummy…
We had been warned. News alerts and weather apps had all told us a big, wild, prairie thunderstorm was brewing in Montana and would strike central North Dakota sometime in the early morning. We tracked the radar as the storm progressed, but we went to bed at 11 p.m. because we thought the storm predictions…
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel,…