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I’m not a patient parent. I get frustrated easily and sometimes I let my impatience show. The last thing I want to do is make my daughter feel like she is less than enough. I also fear that I will pass the trait of impatience on to her. I would rather show love and acceptance […]
Stuffies and giftware, cards and chocolates seem to be everywhere during the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. I remember as a young adult, pondering the meaning of love. The definition I came up with is that love is a decision, a choice, that I need to make every single day. I know this is […]
As a child, I remember waiting for Christmas. It was a magical and exciting time, a mixture of expectation both spiritual and material. Although I would not have understood it this way at the time, it was a combination of a rather mystical waiting for the day of Jesus’ birth and a more down-to-earth excitement […]
As I sat down to write this blog, I realized I had some serious work to do. 1 Corinthians 13:4a contains just five little words but the deeper I dug into them, the more their impact compelled me to consider what they truly meant to me and how I was (and was not) applying them […]
Zechariah and Elizabeth had given up hope. They had prayed for a child for years and never heard an answer to their prayers. They watched their nieces, nephews, and friends’ children grow up, marry, and have children of their own. And yet they were still alone, still longing. Their home remained silent, void of any […]
I’m not a patient person. I try to be, but more often than not I find myself becoming impatient. I have never liked waiting, especially when I think I know the answer or the right course of action and am ready to move ahead. I’m sure we’ve all been at this point at some time […]
Do you ever feel like everything is on hold and life is passing you by? Maybe you feel like the plans God has for your life aren’t coming to fruition as fast as you would like, or perhaps you wonder if God has completely forgotten all about you. You don’t feel like you are a […]
There are days when trouble seems to come knocking from the minute I crawl out of bed. It can be little, insignificant things like not being able to find my slippers or burning my breakfast that get to me, or it can be larger issues like remembering I forgot to pay a bill or do […]
I’ve never understood the way Jacob treated Leah. Even as a kid the story of Jacob and his two wives bothered me. Why did Jacob never show any love to Leah? She was clearly devoted to him. We all know the story of their lives, which begins in Genesis 29 and continues through Genesis 35. […]
My husband pastors two small churches that are each around 150 years old. Often, as I sit in the pews I can feel the weight of that age and all the history that the buildings contain. Paul’s statement in Hebrews 12:1 about being surrounded by “so great a cloud of witnesses” really resonates with me […]
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