/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: Ps 120:1 I call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me. Struggling for Faith I was in a relationship for 6 years and my x partner left me and started a new life with someone else. And I was lost. The person didn't even explain why he didn't want me in his life and just vanished. I suffered a lot ... My world turned out to be grey. I had no more joy in my life, I had anger on my heart, I hated him so much ( I actually didn't. I was hurt ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: "We love because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19) Saved from Drowning. Awake Series, Part 24 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." (1 Cor 13:4-7 NIV) The ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: Luke 16:10a - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much. (KJV) Could We Do It? Luke 19:17 - And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities. (KJV) By now, most of the North American continent, if not the world, knows of the finding and rescue of Rita Chretien of Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. This extraordinary woman survived for ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: "If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." (1 Cor 13:2) The Key to Moving Mountains. Awake Series, Part 23 She started as a simple children minister, this friend of mine. Her heart was set on making a difference in their young lives. She was good at it, especially since she invested so much time in children and believed earnestly that God would move mountains like never before. Open to God's Holy Spi ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: Isa 40:31 Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Ready to Fly Something new showed up on my Dad's front porch this Spring: a nest. A robin decided that the top of a corner post just under the metal roof would be the perfect place to put her new home. Slowly she started to build it stick by stick. My Dad noticed what she was ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death; my enemy will say, 'I have overcome him,' and my foes will rejoice when I fall." (Ps 13:1-4) Am I Even Loveable? Rivers of Faith, Part 18 ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: Phil 2:5 "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus" A Young Spirit It was my daughter's 21st birthday. Dinner was finished and cake and ice cream were about to be served. As I looked out on my three grown children I was amazed at how quickly the years had gone by. My youngest was now 18 years old. My daughter was a college graduate. My oldest boy was 23 and getting older every minute. Just thinking about it I could fe ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13) When Things Don't Go Our Way: Awake Series, Part 22 That morning of December 6, 1917, Vincent Coleman said good-bye to his lovely wife, Frances, and their four children, and went to work at the Richmond railway station in Halifax Nova Scotia. His workplace was a small wooden station amidst the Richmond rail yards, in close proximity of t ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse: 2 Samuel 22:31 "As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him." (NKJV) Trusting God On The Curves My grandfather was swearing while clutching the door and probably wondering why he had let me do what he had. My cousin surely contemplated the same. The terrific thing about a grandfather with a farm that had a number of dirt roads coursing through it was the periodic privilege of ...Continue Reading

/ Welcome to the Illustrator/ Today's Bible Verse:  "No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me." (John 15:4) Hanging by a Thread. Rivers of Faith, Part 17: Faith Tumbler - Legalism vs. Indulging in Sin. At Point Pelee, Ontario, we discovered a strange site near an abandoned cemetery: a broken dead tree branch, devoid of life, was hanging between two trees. At one end, a vine had intertwined itself ar ...Continue Reading