May 2, 2025 Prove “…now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith–of…
April 11, 2025 Who’s Scared? Maybe Me! “…like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do not give way to fear” (1 Peter…
February 20, 2025 Achoo! Oh no! They’re sick–again! I sighed, pushing my planner to the corner of the schoolroom table. There went my schedule, my goals, and our…
January 16, 2025 Being Unseen Jeff and I like to joke about an old Monte Python skit. Sometimes it’s tempting to practice the “Art of Not Being Seen.” Entering…
December 13, 2024 How Long? “My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the…
December 6, 2024 Stuff to Still “Be STILL and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psalm 46:10)….
November 29, 2024 I’ll Keep It! Last night I sat surrounded by the “fruit of my labor,” four adults aged 18-23, filling our plates with diverse expressions of creativity. This…
October 25, 2024 Lose the Weighty Yoke “Just relax!” My friend, Bill tells me in karate. I look at him, perplexed. This idea still doesn’t make sense even after eight years…
October 11, 2024 Fleeing Brings Focus “If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through flames” (1 Corinthians 3:15,…
September 20, 2024 Matter “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17). Matter: 1. anything that takes up space and can be…