Do you recall a time when praise gave you a lift? I’ve enjoyed recreational swimming ever since my college roommate and I signed up for an endurance swimming class in our sophomore year. However, over time my stroke had become a diminished version of its former self – it had
Submitted by Ken Meyers – For the longest time I had not given much thought about getting older; every year was just another year on the calendar. For me it did not have anything to do with a number, I realize this isn’t the case for all women. I was
By Sandra Glahn – I saw a Pinterest cartoon recently in which the subject pointed out that America is the only place where people express gratitude on Thanksgiving for all the things they have and spend the next day shoving people over to get the stuff they don’t. Sadly, Black
By Andrea Sharp – When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you are trudging seems all uphill; When the funds are low, and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh; When care is pressing you down a bit –
“One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer–at three in the afternoon. Now a man crippled from birth as being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.
By Dixie Diamanti – Three Choices You Get to Make If You Want to Hear Jesus Speaking–For Real! I felt like I was going through the motions of life, but without the joy. “Lord, where is my joy today” I kind of whined. I was walking along a river and
By Sandra Bennett – “I have a firm conviction that I am immortal till my work is done.” – Lottie Moon “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere anyway.” – Sandra K. Bennett “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” – Diana Scharf Hunt I’ve developed a method
Reading l Thessalonians recently, I was struck by a phrase the Apostle Paul made in the first chapter of this book. He said that the believers in Thessalonica were a “model” to all the other Christians in the area. What do you think a “model” Christian looks like? No—not a
Did you know that Thriving is an attitude? It’s a choice? It’s a perspective on life that enables you to look up, even in tough times? And it’s a way of living that God wants for you? Whether you live in the US or somewhere around the globe, you’re heading
“For you meet him with the blessings of goodness”(Psalm 21:3a) To meet: To come together, approaching in opposite or different directions; to come face to face; as, to meet a man in the road. To come together in any place I took a walk as the sun set a few
By Janet Perez Eckles – “Christmas time a season of joy.” That reminder jabbed at my heart, after losing my Joe, no celebration seemed appropriate. But I put on a mask of courage and stuff my feelings like Christmas decorations in storage boxes. Afraid to face my first Christmas without
By Holly LaChappell – The holidays are here with family meals, gatherings and traditions. What are your family dynamics? Emotions can run high and getting together with extended and immediate family can create stress, dreg up a lot of emotions and hard memories of holidays past. What if we started our gift
By Olga Hermans – Mention the words “peer pressure” and the picture that most likely comes to mind is that of a pre-teen feeling stressed about fitting in with her fellow middle schoolers. And yet at every stage of life, there are areas in which we feel pressure to go
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
By Daphne Tarango – Many people were away from their homes for the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ–Joseph, Mary, the shepherds, the wise men, and most of all, Jesus Himself. Several years ago, I was away from home for the holidays. Recently divorced, I moved to a new town
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
Hurricane Sandy has come and gone, leaving not only a total mess, but loss of life, both human and animal, total destruction of property, broken hearts and lives. On the farm, there are drifts of three to four feet and about two feet of snow. The wind has been blowing
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
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