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Click on this link to find the first part of My Faithfully Sure Calling published in April 2018. After over a dozen years of being in the same church, I’ve come to know the ins-and-outs of our building and a lot of the congregants. As plenty of you are in similar rural and small-town ministries, […]
I have this bad habit of tucking things into drawers when they are broken. I often don’t have the time or desire to deal with them when they break, and I don’t want to look at them laying around, so I shut them up in drawers. Then, when I am looking for something, I open […]
Proverbs 31:28, “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” Growing up, my sisters and I enjoyed taking this verse literally and on occasion, would suddenly stand up, look at our mother, and say, “Blessed!” While this always provided our family a chuckle, it was also a fun […]
Mother’s Day is coming soon. My girls are grown with families of their own, living hundreds of miles away. It’s so easy to think they don’t need me anymore. With the pandemic and the cautions at the beginning, I was still going to work. We were staying distant (There are not many in our office […]
Laying in my bed at night, I felt as though the pressure would crush me. Everyone is stuck inside. So many people need contact. So many people struggle with loneliness. So many young moms are feeling the stress of distance education. So many are working in the danger zones of hospitals or nursing homes. Then […]
It was really hard when I had to erase most of the events on my April calendar because of quarantining and social distancing. The last 15 days of March were not as shocking to let go of but there were several things I was REALLY looking forward to in April (and the rest of the […]
Christianity is, at its essence, a willingness to let Someone else be the hero of the story. I find this immensely comforting, because right now I am anything but the hero. In fact, the overwhelming feeling is helplessness. As I write this we are in the second week of social distancing from Covid-19. People in […]
Almighty God, Heavenly Father, How good it is to remember and rest in the fact that You are all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere present – especially now as this world is experiencing fear and anxiety, sorrow and loss, hope and hopelessness. How good it is to know You and to remember Your promises as […]
Recently I have been considering what it means to be righteous and how that should be manifested in my own life. I can’t say there was an epiphany moment where I woke up one morning and decided that I should pursue righteousness, but rather it has been a long, winding road and for a long […]
I grew up in a small house with lots of land. My grandparents lived next door and Grampa farmed, gardened, raised chickens and pigeons, and grew many fruit trees as well as grapes. All this land and all those trees made for great places to hide. When my cousins came over and it would just […]
