(These thoughts felt too personal to publish, but my husband said they would help some of you. So, dear readers, here they are, with a prayer that God may bless you through them.) It was almost 8 PM. Miles and miles away, Bible study was beginning but this season, due to logistics and health issues, […]
Devotional
Numbering Our Days in the New Year
Happy New Year! May God bless you and your family in all you do, and fill you with gratitude, wisdom, and joy as you go through your days. I, too, pray for wisdom, gratitude, and joy this year. That is probably why my New Year’s thoughts are somewhat different for 2015. Rather than focusing directly on […]
It’s All Good…Because God is With Us
“It’s all good.” Some people say this just to fill empty spaces in conversations, but for others it is a confession of faith. Yet how, in the face of life’s endless daily brokenness, can anyone possibly say this? Is it even true? When disease, depression, or death creep into our lives, there is this burning […]
Winter’s Beginning
Sunday morning, some of the ‘raindrops’ did not fall, but tumbled and drifted in the wind, the winter’s first attempt at snow. Our fire is burning and we have cups of tea standing around and there’s the promise of soup for lunch. We make the extra effort to focus on warmth and coziness, sleep in […]
Now Thank We All Our God
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. This beautiful hymn reminds us how to give thanks. Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices; who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours […]