“Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.” (Luke 8:39 NIV) As I sat in the church pew with my head bowed in prayer, I heard a voice reverberate so thunderously in my heart that it…
Maybe it’s all the time spent at home this past year making me more reflective, but I’ve been thinking with gratitude lately about women who have mentored me, encouraged me, and helped me along in my life. I don’t know if I would have thought of them as “mentors” at the times when they were…
I feel like I’ve been waiting my entire life. As a child, I spent my time waiting for Christmas, my birthday, and summer vacation. As I grew, I waited on graduation, turning twenty-one, and finding “the one.” In adulthood, I’ve waited for my husband to return from war, babies to be born, and planes to…
“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful” (Col. 4:2 ESV). February 2020 found me anxious and depleted. In addition to the usual Midwestern winter doldrums, our family was in a difficult season. Our homeschooling year wasn’t going well. We were contemplating a change in my husband’s job and possible relocation. We began the final…
“The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.” (Josh. 3:17 NIV) Have you ever watched God bring you through your own personal Red…
Our flatlander family vacationed in the mountains for the first time this year. My prairie children, at home in the endless grass and fields of our North Dakota farm, were stunned at the height and majesty of the mountains. They exclaimed over the steepness of the trails as we hiked. Mom couldn’t exclaim; she was…