How the truths of Scripture change the way I live
I love our little home. It’s clean and bright with a magnificent WINDOW to let in the view. It’s well-built, tastefully finished, not rustic or allergy inducing. There are no spiders, ants or bugs. It is not overrun with a lifetime of collected knick-knacks. It’s just right for the two of us at this stage […]
We have arrived—it seems too good to be true, and yet, here we are, unpacked and at home in a new place with a one-year lease. We arrived in town on a Monday morning with a job promised but no place to live. It was time to get our feet wet. We’d booked a hotel […]
Encouragement, whether you’re extending it or receiving it, requires faith. Ability to encourage is contingent on believing that what will be is more than what is now. It takes vision, hope in what is yet unseen. For faith is the stuff of things hoped for, things not visible, things yet to be… If I have […]
How do you measure the worth of a day? What’s your criterion for ‘a good day’? Most of my life I’ve kept journals—recording happenings, feelings, revelations, and just plain history. They’ve become repositories of words that track my life. When I was young I wrote of actual things that were happening. Things that seem mostly […]
My box ran empty at last. I’ve been parceling them out a few at a time ever since our Christmas trip to the states. Now they’re gone. I quite like these delectably disguised nibs of licorice with the pink and white candy coating; they remind me of my childhood somehow. But that’s beside the point. […]