I live in a small town in Missouri with one gas station, no stoplights, and only three restaurants. So, when I recently got the chance to choose anywhere I wanted to eat in Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States, I was pretty excited about my options. I headed straight for Chinese food. It…
Obviously, I love being a grandparent. As a little girl, I grew up dreaming about raising a big family and have seen those dreams come true. I always knew my children would be an enormous blessing, but what I didn’t know way back then was how amazing the second blessing would be when I became…
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed–not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence–continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (Phil. 2:13-14 NIV) We all probably…
I’m about to celebrate twenty years of service with my employer. That’s just a wee bit longer than the median employee tenure in the US, which is just over four years. I’ve been thinking about this occasion for a few months, and while it brings up many memories, mostly it makes me think of faithfulness….
Recently, while reading through 1 Corinthians, I came to a full stop at chapter 3, verse 5. Paul was talking about how he had heard the Corinthian believers were dividing into factions. They seemed to have been bragging about who were the better Christians. “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I…
It started with a box of letters from Togo, West Africa. During a cross-country visit to see my husband’s family, my husband’s aunt, Shirley Cropsey, told me that someday, she wanted to write a book. During the 1980s and ’90s, when her family had been medical missionaries in Togo, West Africa, she sent hundreds and…