I’ve been thinking a lot about suffering lately; not so much that I’m personally in a place of extreme suffering, but I have a lot of people in my life who are experiencing some very challenging circumstances. It seems like every other day I hear that someone I know and love has been diagnosed with …
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Forget About It!? (From The Archives)
I first published this post two years ago today, but it's a good word for any new year's consideration. Enjoy. **** Here we are, at the end of another year of life. We look back on the last twelve months and consider hopefully what might be in our future for the next twelve. It’s a …
Grace Beats Regret
I am struck by a phrase in this verse: that we would be holy and blameless before Him. It doesn’t say “might be” or “hopefully will be.” It says that God chose us, before we were ever born, so that we would be holy and blameless before Him. And why we were chosen to be …
Grandparenting…Reflections On A Blessed Life
This summer Todd and I began a new journey – we became grandparents! We’ve anticipated this for a while (let’s be honest…as soon as both my girls were married, I began thinking of how cool it would be one day for those babies to start arriving!). We really did try not to be the pushy …
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What Is Your Hope?
As I write this, our world is experiencing an abundance of significant natural events that are causing distress. We just weathered two major, record-setting hurricanes. The west is being devoured by wildfires. One website tells us that there were 673 earthquakes in the world, recorded at a magnitude above 4.0 in the last 30 days!1There …
The Way Of The Word 