Guest Author 4 Minute Read by Christine Brown Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. -Jim Elliot Don’t strain your eyes to see the future – for you will not be able to see clearly what God wants you to see now. -Elisabeth Elliot Looks like the…
Guest Author 2 Minute Read The Lord spoke to my heart a while back concerning the bare trees and my time of waiting. I had quietly noted within myself how drab and unlovely the trees were looking during the winter months and was contemplating it all and feeling quite sorry for them and myself when all of a sudden the Lord reminded me how this is the season that He has chosen for them and how during this time they wait patiently for the coming and promised spring.
Guest Author 2 Minute Read by Betsy Castleberry The grass has turned green, tulips and daffodils are blooming, and the class of 2009 is graduating! My brother is among the graduate pictures on our refrigerator this year. It’s an exciting time, as you close a chapter and turn a new page, wondering what the next season of life will hold….
Guest Author 1 minute by Hännah Schlaudt A life in time demands limitation, A choice of one good over another. So many words to read, words you must know. Pick now; tomorrow is no surety. Which words shall I read, and dwell with now? Stacked around me, my books are tower’d walls Insulation from thoughts my own (flattened By…
Guest Author 2 Minute Read by Bethanne Crackles rang from the wood stove. Fire devoured the wood inside, efficiently providing heat for the cool fall afternoon. Above the faint sounds of the fire, I heard my aunt reading aloud. The story was not new, but I was soon caught up in it as if for the first time. Reading aloud…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Melissa C. . “Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.“ –James 1:12 Fear. We are all well-acquainted with him, as much as we would love to bar him from even…
Guest Author 2 Minute Read by Deb, from the IDD Blog For some reason, I just don’t use umbrellas. I don’t really know why. It’s not that I have a fetish for eyeliner and blush running down my wet cheeks. Or that I enjoy my hair resembling my dog John’s on bath day. I just don’t use them. If I’m…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Anna of Hope Road Blog The concept of “giving you heart away” is one that I have been familiar with since high school, and I have gone from embracing it wholeheartedly to questioning it. The idea is that with each dating/courting relationship, and even each crush, that you allow yourself to become involved with,…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read by Elizabeth D. “I don’t think Edmond would have had a chance if he had fought Trumpkin twenty-four hours earlier. But the air of Narnia had begun working upon him ever since they arrived on the island, ad all his old battles came back to him, and his arms and fingers remembered their old skill. He was…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read I originally sat down to write about my love story, my “Happily Ever After”, but then–as happened many times before–I was convicted. Something that I never actually choose to feel: conviction. Isn’t it funny how the things we need in life (such as conviction) are hardly ever the things we actually want? But thank the…
Guest Author 3 Minute Read I believe in doorsteps. Some of you might already know what I mean by that, particularly those who were there when it was coined. I’m afraid I can’t take credit for the saying and I can’t remember who was the first to start saying it, but among a small group of single girls that phrase…
Guest Author 6 Minute Read Short, fat, tall, thin.I look in the mirror and a thousand voices echo in my head.This is too big, that’s not big enough.My inner critic is relentless and harsh.Images swirl through my mind’s eye.Bone-thin models and beautiful actresses and singers.Every one of them telling me the same thing.You don’t measure up. Then the if onlys…
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