By Janice Hope – “When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.”~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D Life is like a journey on a huge ship in an endless sea. At least it
By Lynn Mosher – What is one of the best elements about Christmas, aside from the obvious of Jesus’ birth? The presents? The tree? The food? Nope! For me, it’s the music! I love all the Christmas music. So many wonderful carols have been written over the years. Do you
By Byron Wicker – Dear People Who Keep Company with God, When I was a young believer a prophetic minister was giving words of knowledge to several of the young men in our church. My turn came and he said, “Count your blessings and be thankful.” That was it. I went home disappointed
By Susan Lawrence – I regularly travel, and since I live 90 miles from the airport, I usually stop close to the airport on my way home so I can get a fountain drink. Sometimes I’ll splurge and treat myself to a chocolate milkshake at a diner on my way
By Karen Jordan – Excuses, excuses, you’ll hear them every day. And the Devil he’ll supply them, if the church you stay away. When people come to know the Lord, the Devil always loses So to keep them folks away from church, he offers them excuses. (Kingsmen, “Excuses”) I can
By Karen Lembo – (References taken from NIV) Last year, shortly before Thanksgiving, I purchased two amaryllis bulbs, prepared the prepackaged soil as instructed, and planted the bulbs in identical pots. I placed them on either end of my mantle and considered how beautiful they would look for Christmas. One
By Linda Menesez – I sit in the middle of such a familiar room, and yet everything feels different. Everything has changed! I’m at my mother’s house, but she hasn’t been here in several months. My stepfather is, also, gone from the home. Both of them are in the same
By Lori Latimer – In late September, I noticed a trend in a group of separated and divorced women I’m involved with. These women span a range of ages from mothers with younger children to women who have grandchildren. But regardless of their ages or current life situations, the underlying
By Susan Lawrence – When my parents had been married for 45 years, my sisters and I planned a surprise party. We decided it would be easier to surprise them at year 45 than year 50, when a party might be more expected. Keeping it a surprise was just one
By Deborah McCarragher – As Christmas approaches I began thinking more about His mother Mary, and what she might have been thinking as she awaited the birth of her firstborn Son. Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem because of the census that Caesar Augustus had decreed. The lush fields and
By Deborah Bateman – Matthew 5:7-8 Blessed [are] the merciful: For they shall obtain mercy. Blessed [are] the pure in heart: For they shall see God. This is the third lesson of the Beatitudes series. We are going to look at Matthew 5:7-8 If you have been following the series
By Nancie Carmichael – …This part of the journey does not require tools for building as much as it requires tools for letting go. Our family loves watching football—and we especially love “our” Oregon Ducks. I’m intrigued to see that in many games, the Ducks come out to play the
By Denise Horner Mitnick – When my husband and I were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary last January, I developed symptoms of a severe gallbladder attack. We traded the winter wonderland resort where we were renewing our love affair for a Philadelphia teaching hospital where I was poked and prodded
By Anita A. Chlipala – By the time I see couples in my office, some of them dislike each other, some wonder if they are better off divorced, and others wonder if their hurt and wounds can be healed. I like to ask them, “On your wedding day, did you
By Peter Kruger – A child visits a fairground and spends their pocket money on a carousel ride. They are told from the outset that the carousel would go around seventy times and then the ride would be over. When the child thought seventy circuits had been completed the child
By Beth Havey – I was ten when I stepped into the spotlight one Christmas night and performed various roles in Gian Carlo Minotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. My older brother John and younger brother Bill also performed. Our audience consisted of four very proud women—my grandmother, two aunts and my
By Janelle Alberts – Over a woman’s prayer breakfast the other day, I asked around the table for input about the power of God’s word. Specifically, did anyone want to comment on powerful verses they turned to in times of need? “Yes!” said one friend. “The one about how God
By Peggy Lester – In the beginning of my missionary travels, I went to Mexico many times to the remote hill villages. Some of the projects were building churches, different stages in the building projects, i.e., from foundations to painting and/or reconstruction projects. Children’s ministry was usually a part of
By Anita A. Chlipala – By the time I see couples in my office, some of them dislike each other, some wonder if they are better off divorced, and others wonder if their hurt and wounds can be healed. I like to ask them, “On your wedding day, did you
By Leona Salazar – I have lots to be thankful for and consider myself a very lucky lady. I’m married to the “bestest husband in the entire universe” and have a fantastic sister-in-law who’s more like a sister to me, her three children and their spouses, and my four grandnephews
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