Guest Author 5 Minute Read The early spring air felt crisp the morning I stepped off my front stoop and walked down our gravel drive for the last time until summer. On the last stretch of a short run, I slipped on a patch of mud and fell, fracturing my ankle. I called Nate in tears. He came, picked me up, put me in the car, and drove back to the house. My feet wouldn’t travel that same stretch of driveway again until August.
Elisabeth Adams 6 Minute Read The other day, my brother stopped plowing snow to tell me that the setting sun had just dropped into line with the ice-clad treetops. Outside our kitchen window, branches sparkled with diamonds against a melba and dove-grey sky. I grabbed my camera, while my brother shucked his enormous boots for me to borrow. I ran…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read I am a list-maker. I’m not a type-A perfectionist by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m word-lover and I’m a scatterbrain and so lists are a must. My daily lists vary a lot. I live at home, so many times my list has “take boys to football practice” or “read to Jubilee” or “grocery…
Natasha Metzler 3 Minute Read There is singing as we slip in the back. We’re late, which is normal for evening services. The cows can only be milked so fast and we can only start so early. The congregation is singing, “Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior…” Our bench soon fills with other farmers, also late with still-damp…
Caroline Rose Sanders 8 Minute Read Once upon a time, I was a pretty legalistic teenage girl. I had read the books and the blogs and I was ready to “make a defense” against anyone who disagreed with me. There was only one way to educate your children, only one type of church to attend, only one dress code for modesty, only…
Rachelle Rea Cobb 4 Minute Read Maybe you moved. Or you married. Maybe you are looking for more community, a different mode of worship, or a more Bible-aligned structure. Whatever the reason, you’re in the market for a church. So you set out Sunday morning. In the family van. In the passenger seat with your husband by the wheel. Or, as…
Caroline Rose Sanders 5 Minute Read Mornings can be described accurately with one word: routine. We’ve all said it at one point; that the sun sets and the sun rises and there’s nothing we can do about it. And yet, who can say they have never stood slack-jawed in the presence of a sunrise and thought, “I’ve never seen one like…
Shannon Coe 4 Minute Read He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. -Ecclesiastes 11:4 That thing about reaping we tend to forget is that we need to sow. And we need to sow now, not waiting for perfect moments and a perfect family. Not waiting for the well-planned and the well-executed days….
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Teri Lynne Underwood I’m a wife, a mom, a friend, a Bible teacher, a laundry-doer, a kitchen-cleaner, and a Basset hound wrangler. My life isn’t full of big experiences. It’s full of car lines and to-do lists. I’m guessing you can relate. Some days when I finally lie down in my bed, I wonder…
Katie 5 Minute Read I sat down at the table across from my pastor and his wife and took a deep breath. I was about to tell them I was going to be less involved with our young adults group at church*. Two hours later with peace and their blessing, I embarked on a new adventure – creating community…
Mandy J. Hoffman 4 Minute Read Abby’s eyes were as big as saucers as she rushed up to me and exclaimed, “Mom! Uncle John said he would buy me a pony!” I smiled and winked as I explained that he was just teasing her. He also teased the kids that if they came over to their house that he and “Aunt…
Mandy J. Hoffman 5 Minute Read As wives, each of us have unique joys and challenges which God has lovingly allowed into our lives for our good (James 1:2-4) and His glory as we live life with our husbands. Some issues are the same across the board and others vary depending on our husband’s profession. If several of us got together,…
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