Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Stumbling Towards the Light April 13, 2025 For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. ~ Ephesians 5:8-9 NLT ~ "For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! For this light within you ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Traveling Elephants April 11, 2025 For we walk by faith, not by sight. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV ~ "For we walk by faith, not by sight." (2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV) There is a strange thing happening in our house. Just as a little background, I used to collect little statues of elephants. I actually had quite the coll ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Fraidy Cat April 9, 2025 But Moses said, 'O Lord, please send someone else to do it.' ~ Exodus 4:13 NIV ~ "So now, go. I am sending you to Pharoah to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt...But Moses said, 'O Lord, please send someone else to do it.'" (Exodus 3:10; 4:13 NIV) Recuperating as a three-legged cat in a household of eight dogs ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Tutu Wearin' Angel April 7, 2025 If you love Me, you will obey what I command. ~ John 14:15 NIV ~ "If you love Me, you will obey what I command." (John 14:15 NIV) This is my second day home from South Carolina where my daughter lives and I have done nothing but rest. Keeping up with a young family takes a toll on an old woman like me. We stayed up ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR A Penny in the Mud April 6, 2025 So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while.  ~ 1 Peter 1:6 NLT ~ It had been a long week. I’d had people working over 3 days to repair floors and replace a leaking bathtub in my bathroom. Water damage over a long period of time had caused the floors to soften and rot. It turned out to be ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Running on Fumes April 4, 2025 You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? ~ Matthew 16:8 NIV ~ Classic Illustrator "You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread?" (Matt 16:8 NIV) It was early on Wednesday, July 28th, 2004, when we hitched up our trailer an ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Tripod April 2, 2025 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ~ John 17:14-15 NIV ~ "I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Loving One Another By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- April 1, 2025 "When [Judas] had gone out, Jesus said, '... Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek Me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, "Where I am going you cannot come." A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Why Do Birds Sing? March 31, 2025 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. ~ Psalms 150:6 NIV ~ "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord." (Psalms 150:6 NIV) It was a wonderfully warm day for March here in the mountains of my home. It was already warm by the time the sun slowly rose over the mountains and everywher ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Messy March 30, 2025 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. ~ Luke 24:31 ESV ~ "And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him." (Luke 24:31 ESV) Recently I sat in church next to my eldest daughter, Hannah, and her daughter Anastasia, who is just at the stage of eating with her hands, whilst she sat on her mother’s knee.&nbs ...Continue Reading