Elisabeth Adams 4 Minute Read Just before my senior year of high school, my family moved to Canada. It was a big adjustment, to go from lush green farmland to windswept wood; from a busy church family, to a tiny congregation, most of them elderly. We lived about twenty minutes from town, in either direction — so remote that the…
Elisabeth Allen 3 Minute Read What if devotions are intended to be less of a chore and more of a gift…like a walk in a garden? I love the verse in Genesis 3 that says, They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day… (Genesis 3:8) In this verse “they” are…
Katie 4 Minute Read My hair loves nothing better than a good stripping. Thick and curly, shampoo and conditioner quickly weigh down my ebony tresses, pulling out the curl and giving me enough frizz to make me wonder if I’m related to a lion (some days, our manes would be comparable). Tea tree oil shampoo and apple cider vinegar become…
Trina Holden 4 Minute Read I had given up. I could not find space in my day for devotions, so I gave up trying, hoping it would lessen my shame. One final giving up, instead of a daily failure. Yes, I’d try to swallow that pill instead. I got days and then weeks beyond it and it was only a…
Elisabeth Allen 5 Minute Read Sometimes I make my life unnecessarily complicated. Okay, let’s be honest, sometimes I make my devotions unnecessarily complicated! But what if simple is beautiful for devotions as well as the rest of life and faith? The dictionary explains that devotion denotes affection and loyalty to an individual or cause as well as piety – and…
Callie Mitchell 6 Minute Read The siren sounded and I wasn’t ready. For several days I had this nagging thought that I needed to prepare a bag for a quick trip down to the bomb shelter, if it came to that. Israel was engaging in Operation Pillar of Defense, and we were living through it. With the battle in…
Jenni Marie 5 Minute Read When all strength drained from my limbs and I crumbled into a heap on my kitchen floor, a puddle of tears cowering against the cabinets and hunkered down on the cool tile faced with the most painful betrayal I could imagine, I wasn’t feeling very victorious. When I pulled out of my parents’ driveway for…
Colleen Chao 4 Minute Read It was the last place on earth I wanted to be. I’d always loved flying, but this airplane, with all my worldly belongings crammed into the luggage compartment below me, symbolized the death of my dreams. I’d scored a job as an editor on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., but a 3:00 AM trip to the ER had changed everything. Now suddenly I was on my way home to California minus my health, car, and job. I looked out the window as my dream life vanished beneath me.
Shannon Coe 3 Minute Read Sometimes you just don’t know how bound you are until you have a moment of exhilarating freedom and you think to yourself, “This is what it means to be free”. And it feels so good. Fresh. Wholesome. Alive. And you promise yourself you will never go back to regulations and expectations. But somehow you do….
Elisabeth Allen 4 Minute Read Friday, 29th April, 2011 was a never-to-be-forgotten day. I wasn’t interested in the media reports of Miss Middleton’s relationship with Prince William. The royal wedding, however, was different. I was deeply interested and (to my surprise) deeply moved. I was fascinated as I watched an ordinary girl, Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, become Princess William of Wales:…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 3 Minute Read I used to not get grace. I didn’t understand it and therefore couldn’t appreciate it. I used to read dictionaries, but somehow I never read the definition of grace. In my mind, the word grace conjured something rather obscure, on a rung higher than forgiveness but below love. Whenever I heard the word used in…
Guest Author 6 Minute Read by Olivia Sultenfuss “Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a…
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