When we hear about other people going through hardship in a noble way, it can actually be a source of encouragement for us.First, we sympathize with their situation and offer help.But it can also make us think, "If they can do it, so can I!" We can learn from their...
"When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy[a] came and knelt before him and said, 'Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.' Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 'I am willing,' he said. 'Be clean!'...
"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears." (1Cor...
It was late November. The trees that had been covered with lovely leaves just a few weeks earlier were now stark, skinny sticks trying to ride out the Winter to come. The sun had become scarce as the dark nights lengthened, but today it was totally gone. Gray, gloomy...
As I write this, the rain is coming down in torrents. The question is whether there will be water in our basement again.When we retired nine years ago, my husband renovated my parents' cottage and turned it into our new retirement home. It was a work in progress for...
I've spent a lot of time lamenting past mistakes. 'If only I hadn't done this. If only I HAD done that. If only, if only, if only.But I didn't. I cannot change the past. I cannot change myself. But because the desire is in me to grow and change, He is the One who...
Hebrews 12:11 "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it." NIVWe have horses and goats and horses and goats are good at a lot of things, but one of...
