Inscribed By God
As Easy as a Free Meal Ever struggle with praying for someone to be healed? I have. I’ve had those all-too-familiar extra beats from my heart and flip-flops in my stomach when someone comes up to me and asks for me to pray for physical healing. I’m sure I’m not alone. The thought What if […]
Good Friday Really is Good I’m sure that the picture of a man, flesh torn up, dripping blood, and hanging fully exposed on two beams of wood is exactly what we imagine when we think of a conquering king. I’m sure this image, full of suffering and humiliation, is exactly […]
APRIL FOOLS! April Fools! Something about that phrase, and this day, makes me smile and laugh yet fills me with dread all at the same time. I remember pulling pranks as a kid like the old thread through the hem and filling the sugar bowl with salt. Except one year, the prank was almost on […]
Problems or Plans? God has no problems, only plans. I overheard this quote one day as I was walking through the family room in my house. It stopped me in my tracks. For one, it’s a clearly and succinctly spoken truth that, when allowed to hover and eventually sink in my mind and heart, drives […]
Praying for Ukraine and Learning Hard Forgiveness I confess that I originally had a different post pre-planned for release today. Interestingly enough, it featured Corrie ten Boom and her perspective on problems in life. I still plan to release that post, perhaps next time, especially since her views as concentration camp survivor and later her […]
Sifted and Refined My oldest participates in Bible quizzing through our church, and the first portion of Scripture they had to study this year was Job. I have to be honest, when I saw that I was like uuuummmm…. Since she is quite dedicated to obliterating any and all competition, she runs the audio files […]
Bless the Lord! But, God, I Don’t Understand… “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord” I always thought of this famous quote by Job as somehow being a steady acceptance of the unthinkable, heart-wrenching, mind-blowing progression of tragedies that suddenly hit this man one after the […]
More Boggle Lessons Before the holidays, I had a post about one of my favorite fast-paced word games, Boggle. As my kids have gotten older, some of them have discovered a love of these word games as well. Recently, as we were playing, I was struck by how many life lessons could be gleaned while […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Twelve green grapes. Happy New Year! Mystified? Every year as the clock counts down, people in Spain clutch twelve green grapes. Each grape represents one month of the year, and when there are twelve seconds left in the year, everyone starts piling them into their mouths, one per timed chime until the […]
Christmas Smiles Christmas. Even just the word draws a little smile on my face. Traditionally, one of my favorite holidays is Christmas. Despite the controversy over whether Christmas is the actual day of Jesus’s birth and some solid theories that His birth actually happened during the celebration of Sukkot, or the Feat of Tabernacles, I […]