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 5 Minute Read I used to devour books by the dozens. I’d read theology, fiction, memoirs—whatever I could get my hands on. Except one thing. I didn’t ever read devotionals. (Well, except that one time I picked up a Guideposts and read the whole years’ worth in one sitting.) The problem was they only took like 2.3 seconds to read…
Jenni Marie 4 Minute Read We are four ladies, tea cups in hand, walking life and Colossians side-by-side around that cozy dining room table. Three Mennonites and one Baptist. One approaching thirty, one approaching ninety. Three Grandmothers and me. When I moved to Canadaland as the new girl, my first goal of survival was to find a ladies Bible study…
Jessica Elisabeth 3 Minute Read It’s 7:05 am, and my obnoxious alarm cuts into my deepest sleep of the night. I roll over to turn it off, wishing for the hundredth time that I did not have 8:00am classes four mornings a week. As I will my bleary eyes open, my mind begins racing over my packed to-do list for…
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…
Gretchen Louise 8 Minute Read I first caught the vision when I heard someone share during a funeral at our church. The man’s grandson reflected on many memories, but said that the one impression that would never fade was what he saw each morning during visits to their home. He’d awake to find his grandparents sitting at the kitchen table reading the Bible…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Jennifer M. Lucas It’s 5:45 on a typical Monday morning. I’m behind on my Bible study. Three days behind actually, but who’s counting. The baby woke up early the first morning and I didn’t even have a chance to get started. Then, the next morning I hit the snooze button a few too many…
Natasha Metzler 2 Minute Read Our family is not so much for mornings. In fact, though I love to get up early, I do not like to speak for the first 45 minutes, at least. My husband would rather snooze until the last possible second and my daughter thinks waking up is for the birds. But when our family came…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Sarah Mackenzie When I was ten, I won a big round of applause and a picture book about Dorcas at our church’s Bible study club. I was beaming with pride that day. I don’t remember how many memory verses I had mastered, but it was a lot, and I had outdone everyone else —…
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…
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