A Mother’s Day Song
What could sing more perfectly than scripture? This Mother’s Day, I offer you I Chronicles 16:8-36, with related encouragements between the stanzas of this ancient song of Asaph, as appointed by King David– 8 Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what…
When God Changed His Mind–Altars and Isaacs
“When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood” (Genesis 22:9 NIV). The word ‘altar’ appears nearly…
Blind? Blonde? Or Both?
Sometimes how one speaks stirs confusion… creates trouble… or worse. Take Judges 12:1-6 (read for full context), for example–particularly verses five and six. “The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, ‘Let me cross over,’ the men…
The Lord Is My Shepherd
“Momma, please come. I’m scared.” Those five words called out were a common theme when I was a girl of seven, too often breaking the silence of a sleeping household. And Momma would come, sit on the edge of my bed, and pray with me….
Prayer for Ukraine
Lately, I’ve felt as though, if I allowed myself to start, I’d never stop crying. And so, most of the time, the wall’s stood firm. Until recently. It crumbled as I watched with horror images on the news of a woman–a very pregnant woman–being carried…
New Life in an Old Garden
“The question is not what you look at but what you see” (Henry David Thoreau). Summer’s wildflowers are a faint memory in the often chilly, damp days of early March. What was once a flurry of color in a variety of shapes and sizes stands brown…
Do to Others!
“You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD” (Leviticus 19:14 ESV). I’ve heard it said– Just because you can’t smell it doesn’t mean it don’t stink! I learned this…
Caring for Orphans–The Autobiography of George Müller
(Book Review #2–Nonfiction) “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans… and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” (James 1:27 NIV). As a mother of three adopted children and an advocate for life in…
Detained in Tel Aviv–Part 2
“Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life…” (Psalm 23:6a NIV). So… about that little detail regarding being detained in Tel Aviv… ******* Funny how it was only after it was decided that I’d attend the Women’s Aglow International…
Detained in Tel Aviv–Part 1
“The Lord is my shepherd…” (Psalm 23:1a). Once upon a time, a much younger me was detained in Tel Aviv. That’s right. Sounds like the making of a marvelous and quite suspenseful fiction story, does it not? Well, this one’s true. It’s a story from…