This morning, the sweetest words uttered to me were, “I stood in for you.” It was a mid-morning call from my husband as he was asking me “how is the morning going?” He had stood in for me at the men’s weekly (every Tuesday) 6:00 a.m. prayer time. He was…
Read more“I can’t believe I made such a silly mistake! This means I have to pay to do the same thing again and I really don’t have the money.” It was for several minutes that I really let myself have it as I looked down at the hundreds of copies that…
Read moreA few hours ago I held my teen daughter while she wept. Why is it, friendships are sometimes hard? Why do girls say things that hurt? As I held her and wiped her face, I spoke softly into the top of her hair, “Sweetie, I wish I could tell you…
Read moreAs I look around our world today, I see such little personal responsibility for mistakes made and wrongs done. Everyone is either certain that someone will bail them out from their predicament or that they can blame someone else for their failures. As a Christian, of course, I’m grateful for…
Read more27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”? 28Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not…
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