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Today I’m posting over at my friend Melanie’s site. Read this preview and click to read the rest! Last year started out with grim news. My husband was diagnosed with lymphoma. It was a shock for this guy who never takes a sick day. He…
When I was a little girl I loved hearing the twenty-third psalm read in church. But I always sensed a mystery of Psalm 23. It was easy to picture Jesus as a shepherd because in the sanctuary there was a huge stained glass window of Jesus…
My husband and I were driving to Columbia, Missouri to visit our son and his wife. It was a beautiful sunny day and were were enjoying the six-hour drive until… Traffic on the Interstate slowed and stopped. Instead of zipping along at 70 miles per…
Good news. Doesn’t your heart do a happy dance when you hear that phrase? For me, this year started out with a lot of bad news. My husband was diagnosed with lymphoma. A friend of mine lost her battle with lung cancer. Life seemed to…
It doesn’t take much for me to become distracted by my desires Take the time I wanted a new house more than anything. It wasn’t that the house we lived in was a hovel. It fact it was a two-story, four-bedroom, two-full-bath residence with a…
We all need a little encouragement. That’s probably obvious to you. But does that fact motivate you to share encouraging words? My Encourager When I was in third grade, my teacher got sick. Really sick. In fact, she got cancer and left the classroom. In…
Not long ago I was working in my garden–ruing the fact that in the past I had not left space between my bed of pink yarrow and the green lawn. I got a little lazy and didn’t bother to keep up the edge of the…
I love a good story. I like getting lost in a fictional world filled with interesting characters and an intriguing plot. Give me romance and mystery. Provide me with adventure and astonishing developments in the storyline. In my own life, however, I greatly prefer a…
Are you in a season of waiting? One of my friends feels like she is in a state of limbo right now. She and her husband are considering moving away from cold Illinois winters to a warmer climate. But because they have not yet…