The past year has been a difficult one, full of challenges much like the decade before it. I sometimes feel like a battered ship struggling to stay afloat in an unrelenting storm. And last fall, the seemingly endless stress of balancing marriage, motherhood, and caregiving—while trying to “keep it all together” and hide my depression…
“Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” ~Lamentations 3:21–23 NIV Last year was particularly difficult. My family received a multitude of blessings, most definitely, but we also experienced…
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Come, O children, listen to…
“What if time grew on trees?” ~Hayley DiMarco, A Woman Overwhelmed When I read this question in a Bible study, I confess my thoughts drifted first to space on a full calendar and then to a cozy nook in our local library. Time growing on trees would mean I would be able to read all…
“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise;…
“Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen. He gave it the name Ebenezer, saying, ‘The Lord has helped us this far.’” (1 Samuel 7:12 NLV) Their plan required a jet ski ride in sweatshirts and a moderately difficult hike on a cool fall day. My daughter and her best friend decided…