How to Lean Correctly
Writing is so very challenging at times. This week I’m feeling great pressure to get my five-minute talk ready for the Proverbs 31 conference. Trying to find one topic that I can teach with meaning, that will bless the listener, whether they like my style or not. So...Taking a Risk
Where does the apple fall? Not too far from the tree. And where do the flowers grow? In the soil, in which they were planted. Sometimes life seems like it will be what it will be. What was before is now, again. We cook and clean, do the same things, go to the same...Combating Betrayal
He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their sorrows. Psalms 147:3 Nothing is more devastating than being betrayed by an intimate friend. Someone who knows all our secrets. Someone who shares the same friends and church. Maybe it is something small, like your...How to Survive the Wait
I hold her in my arms, and she smiles, her laughter is my undoing. Carried in the safety of her mother for the better part of a year, now carried in her arms every six months. Each half-year we will see the doctor, the threat of a disease we never knew existed, and...When Waiting is Hard
Before Eve, it was God and Adam, walking in the garden together, naming the animals together, and receiving instructions, God to man. God’s instructions to Adam were to “cultivate and keep the garden”. It was Adam’s responsibility under the...
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