I have not always believed God’s grace sufficient. I have known the words, the promise, but not always felt their reality. I was once a young mom with a sick baby unconsolable… who would stop breathing in our arms, leaving an empty bassinet at my bedside, even as my milk letdown… As I sang words […]
I arrived this week at the end of a passage I’ve been memorizing since January. At just two verses per week it’s been a slow but steady crawl. But I can now recite it thoughtfully to the echoey walls of my new home beginning with: “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, […]
I am fickle. The longer I live with myself the more I realize it. Adolescent mood swings gave way to mommy tantrums (I never thought I had anger issues and then came a husband and kids, even once a flying saucepan). Then once the kids were gone and you’d think peace might reign over the […]
I was in a Bible study group lately where the question was posed to a couple of retired couples—“So, what’s it like being retired? What do you do with your time?” Free time is one of those coveted commodities in the busy-ness of our ‘working’ years. We’re sure that if we had more of it […]
I grow weary of waiting to be more than I am…to overcome weaknesses of personality, of upbringing, of an underlying shortness of faith (for want of a better way to put it). Will I go to my grave frustrated at my feeble prayer life, for instance? Will I be forever fearful of the unknown, the […]