Welcome to the Nugget April 9, 2019 Moments, Days, Years By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full." (John 15:11 ESV) When I was a young man I had a lot of ego and very little empathy. I thought I knew everything. I looked forward to fame and success. I can even remember once in college arrogantly telling one of my friends: "If only everyone listened to me then th ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget April 6, 2019 Follow Me! Do NOT Pass! Lessons From Cape Breton, Part 10 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    Although our entire stay in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park could be described as nearly perfect, one of the few "flaws" was the fact that the Cabot Trail, which is the primary road around the park and through the Cape Breton Highlands, was under construction. There were bridges being reconstructed, road beds being grad ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget April 4, 2019 Trials to Triumph By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    I turned toward a new friend seated beside me during a writer's conference. "He's got to be kidding! Did I hear him right? Did he say what I thought he said?" Those questions ricocheted in this crazy chica's head when I heard him described what he did on the side. I let out a quick gasp as he related, with a matter-of-fact tone, that he made jewelry out of, are you ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget April 2, 2019 Hand-Me-Downs By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    "We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God's Good News but our own lives, too." (1 Thessalonians 2:7-9, NLT)Aside from socks and underwear at Christmas and an occasional new pair of sneakers, I never got any new clothes as a child. What I got were hand-me-downs. My coats, jackets, shirts, sweaters, pants, and even belts were all clothes that my olde ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget March 30, 2019 Of Black Flies and Bug Repellant...Lessons From Cape Breton Part 9 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    (In the fall of 2017, my husband and I made an unforgettable trip to Cape Breton, a beautiful island at the northern tip of the Canadian eastern-seaboard province of Nova Scotia. This 3-week trip was inspirational in many ways, and some of the lessons we learned have been outlined in this series that will has been appearin ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget March 28, 2019 Delighting in the Law of God... Lessons From the Book of Psalms, Part 7: Psalms 1 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    In response to recent requests from subscribers, the Nugget will be featuring a devotional based on the book of Psalms once a month. We pray you will be blessed by this focus on the one book of the Bible that Jesus quoted the most. An interesting fact about the book of Psalms is that it is actually a compilatio ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget March 26, 2019 How do I Calm my Heartache? By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    Stop crying. That's enough! It wasn't that bad. Stop it now. These are words others used to calm my little granddaughter's cries after a scraped knee. Being the wise grandma I try to be, I have a different approach. I scoop her up in my arms. Hold her tight, and keep her close. Without saying a word, I rock her gently back and forth. I don't let her go. Her sobs su ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget March 23, 2019 One Man's Junk... Part 2 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    One man's junk is another man's treasure. Last Thursday we discovered through my 17-year-overdue basement-cleaning process that what is junk in our own eyes is nothing but a diamond-in-the-rough from God's perspective. He doesn't see us as junk; rather, He sees us for what we can become, and He cleanses us of our unrighteousness, freeing us to become that "treasu ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget March 21, 2019 One Man's Junk... Part 1 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    One man's junk is another man's treasure. Or so they say, and as we began to try and dispose of the 17-years of accumulated junk from our basement, closets, cupboards and garage, this old adage became our reality. It all started the day we purchased a 20$ "refrigerant" ticket in order for the city to pick up our broken-down dehumidifier. The clerk suggested ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget March 19, 2019 A Small Kindness By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    "Then these righteous ones will reply, 'Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?' And the King will say, 'I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and ...Continue Reading