"As one whom his mother comforts, So I will comfort you" (Isa 66:11 NKJV)A popular, highly acclaimed Christian book, The Shack, was harshly criticized in my Christian circles due to its portrayal of God as a motherly woman.I understand their objections. With 6000...
My Mom's been on my mind lately. There are things I need to ask of her and I can't. There are moments when I think she would have the answer and I can't ask her. There are times when I wonder how different my life would be today if Mom hadn't died from cancer in...
Georgia - who at that time was my fiancé - and I rarely saw her parents. We lived in Halifax. They were seven hundred and sixty miles away in Montreal. Our meetings were few, but it was clear to me, I would have no use for mother-in-law jokes. Theresa was pure gold. I...
This is the third mother’s day I will spend without my son. Our family had to leave our home in Utah almost three years ago and begin a new life eleven hundred miles away. This has been a change of many blessings and wonderful opportunities for my three youngest...
Proverbs 31:28 - Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. (KJV)I was thinking about Little Mama the other day -- about the time she got lost.It was a Sunday morning in May, and my daughters wanted to play awhile before...
Proverbs 31:10 - An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. (ESV)Years ago, when my siblings and I were sitting around the table at a meal time, the topic of conversation was Proverbs 31, from verse 10 on. The passage starts out talking...
Years ago, I was blessed with a gift that still ripples gratitude in me—not from my children but by my Mom.When my sudden blindness had darkened my world in every way, my parents also felt the gloom of my world. And even when I kept my anguish from them, I could...