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The tears first pooled, then pressed upon my eyelids, finally breaking over the edge and trickling down my face. My daughters and I were watching a modern re-telling of Louisa May Alcott’s classic “Little Women”, and Beth was comforting Jo, explaining that her purpose was never to have big dreams but to be the one […]
“The joy of the LORD is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). A few years ago in southwestern Ontario we had one of the coldest winters recorded in fifty years. Preceding this deep and quick freeze was a spike in temperature that yielded such a deluge of rain and freezing rain that the ice it produced […]
“The joy of the LORD IS your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). My fifth grade English teacher had us write in our journals every day. In one entry I made a terrible attempt at writing a poem about cats in which every line ended with the word “is” or “are” or “were”. I can still see […]
It was the last day before Christmas break, and my daughter arrived home with one of those brown paper bags, our names scrawled along with stick drawings and color. She wanted us to wait until Christmas to open it, so she tucked it underneath the tree right away. Peeling back the paper on Christmas morning […]
For me, the beauty of the Flowers ministry has been the privilege of meeting so many pastors’ wives from so many places in North America. Though most of these women I’ve never met in person, I feel like I already know them as I hear their hearts for God and ministry through their writings. Stacey […]
From the time I was a little girl my grandmother always had a plaque displayed in her home with one simple word on it: OTHERS. Though it is one word it encompasses a lot and demonstrates the heart that my grandmother has for others. She always taught us that we should love all those that […]
Every pastor’s wife has one. It’s on a shelf, tucked away in a den somewhere. It’s tacked on a hallway wall space where not too many guests walk by, or it’s folded away in a drawer ready to come out once a year for the Christmas season.
The house we lived in outside of our first small-town ministry was “backwards.” The back wall of our chalet style house was patterned with many large windows placed to view the tree-covered ravine below. The main room had ceilings that were over eighteen feet high. (I know this because we actually cut down a Christmas […]
“For the love of Christ controls us.” (II Corinthians 5:14 NASB) How do you catch a monkey? Put a treat in a hole in the ground just large enough for him to get his hand through. Because the monkey doesn’t want to let go of it he will be trapped. Then…you’ve got him! […]
“Does this dress make me look fat?” Much has been made about the fact that there is no right answer for a husband whose wife asks this question. I have felt that way too over the years when my husband would ask me after a sermon, “How did I do?” I still remember one Sunday […]
