Have they started to creep up yet? Your expectations about the coming holiday season? Isn't it fair to expect we can trust people in our lives not to let us down during the holidays, of all times? After all, when we put our trust in other people, it can really hurt when they let us down. Worse, it ...
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It's easier to make a vow than to keep one. Do you agree? Anyone can promise to have faith in each other, but life takes us to the edge where it's not easy to keep believing. If faith doesn't act, then it's not faith at all.
I couldn't see all of Pike's Peak on our first day in Colorado, but I ...
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Ann Voskamps's One Thousand Gifts took the Christian women's market by storm, but maybe that's not all good. Ann aroused a swell of gratitude, of learning to count small things as reasons for thanks, of noticing God's gifts we once overlooked. But in our hurry to announce all of the small things we ...
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Whine flows freely today, made easier by instantaneous social media platforms assuring empathy from friends and even strangers. I love it when Facebook is a place for prayer needs, celebration, giving thanks, and encouragement. But there's a muddy current flowing through this now common means of ...
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We are in our 25th year of married life. We are also in the midst of change. Suddenly, a lot of things look like potential "lasts." This could be our last fall in the mountains, last fall in our house, and last chance to have Jo home for fall break. Then again, God may surprise us ... The potential ...
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