Who’s Bigger?
It’s no secret my life is in a very scary place right now. In just a few days I will have to prove my abilities as a mother and defend my home and my family. I am at risk of losing my child. I am in a situation where he…
Read moreAn experience with gentleness- behind the “shortbus”
Speed Limit: 45 mph Current speed? 0 mph Why? Because I’m sitting behind the short-bus. It has stopped every 35 feet along my entire route to Target. It’s riders slowly depart. Over and over. As friends have strongly suggested that knitting while driving is probably not a good idea… I’m.…
Read moreHeeding my own Advice
“Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy! Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan, because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon…
Read morePots
I read a devotional by Elisabeth Elliot the other day that really stuck with me. It was about pots. She was in the mission field and somebody was teaching her about making pots. I know them as “coil” pots – you take a long “snake” of clay and coil it…
Read moreIt is well, with my soul
1876 must have been a bad year. At least for Horatio Spafford. A bad year?…. some may even say a bad life. He lost everything financially, in the “Chicago fire”, and all four of his daughters were killed when their ship collided with another. His response? After receiving a telegram…
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