Theresa 2 Minute Read The Lord has been teaching me about forgiveness. He has a way of piercing to my heart with these lessons! Sometimes I want Him to stop working so I don’t have to go through the bother of being challenged, but when I really stop and think about it, I get excited! The fact that He’s…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read written last Mother’s Day Since I got married just a few short weeks after Mother’s Day, every Mother’s Day since my wedding I’ve celebrated as a mother. That first year I had a little one growing beneath my heart–and a terrible flu bug (baby’s daddy had it too–it wasn’t just morning sickness!). The next year…
Chantel 4 Minute Read I have a confession to make. I was 22 years old before I read Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women from cover to cover. Then I wished I’d read it years before. I’m not even sure how I didn’t manage to read it sooner. Of course, I’d heard enough about over the years. I read about Louisa…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read A girl never outgrows the need for her mother. That fact came home to me two months into my marriage. My husband was lying on a hospital bed in front of me, broken, burnt, and bruised after a welding explosion which could have so easily claimed his life. In his over-medicated state, he kept forgetting…
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…
Ashleigh Baker 4 Minute Read We’re in the middle of a big move. My little family is pulling up our roots (my roots anyway) in California, loading up a moving van and driving a bit north and a bit east, eventually landing in a tiny Rocky Mountain town (my husband’s roots). You may remember that my husband is a Marine–a…
Ashleigh Baker 5 Minute Read “So… what do you do?” The question has been presented in various forms over the two years John and I have been married. I heard it again last weekend at the wedding we attended. Before I answer, I ask myself, what do I do? Thinking over my days I remember the many little things that…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read The old adage that “you don’t just marry a person, you marry a family” is never more evident than during the holiday season. Even if you don’t literally go “over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house”, the months of November and December are almost always filled with lots of family visits. I…
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…
Ruth Wiechmann 3 Minute Read by Ruth Wiechmann By the grace of God, Rosemary Katheryn Wiechmann was born just before dawn, June 7, 2008, with big brown eyes and lots of beautiful brown hair, almost an exact replica of her sister in Heaven, Roseanna. By the grace of God, the waters did not overflow us; not the flood waters of…
Ruth Wiechmann 5 Minute Read by Ruth Wiechmann Our five year old son, Ezra is into making crosses this year. Paper and glue, sticks and twine, scraps of boards and nails; he uses whatever materials are at hand at the moment. I admire his creativity, and sometimes I am even called upon to help him get a nail started in…
Elysse 3 Minute Read What about the daughters whose fathers never wanted them and abandoned them before they were even born? Like me. – Rachel Dear Rachel, Thank you so much for asking this question. It is one that is burning within the hearts of so many women, young and old alike. How I wish I could be right…
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