By Lynn Mosher – I did an exercise in brevity the other day as a prompt from a writers’ group. Using only six words, one of them went like this… Got troubles? Got heartaches? Get God! On that day, one of my devotionals used the scripture Philippians 4:6 for its

I recently drained the battery of the van while sitting in Kohl’s parking lot waiting for the girls to get done shopping. Instead of waiting for roadside assistance, I thought of someone who lives ten minutes away. He was soon on his way. Just as I was wondering how he

By Lori Kempton – I remember when I was first married our first dining room table was a round aluminum umbrella table that should be used outside.  We threw a table cloth over its frame to cover the hole in the middle for the umbrella and put some sturdier chairs

By Kathy Howard – This Thanksgiving will look a lot different from last year’s. Grief, loss, and struggle have hit our family in the last six months. Expressing thanksgiving to God comes naturally when good things and easy circumstances mark my life. But gratitude is not my first response when

By Karen Jordan – Have you counted your blessings lately? My mother gave me a journal on my forty-fifth birthday and challenged me, “Can you think of five things that you are grateful for every day?” That evening, I wrote down five promises that I found in my devotional reading

By Judy Dippel – Give Yourself a Gift—Allow God to Help You Find Out 5 Ways You Can Do It Seriously, have you had a tough week?  Or lately (holidays coming, ready or not), have you have you been walking through a series of hard weeks that have mushroomed into