“He loved us long before we loved him.” ~1 John 4:10 I’ve spent a lifetime drawing near. . . and, in the drawing closer, respect for our King, our Creator has grown into friendship, into love, into honor, into awe at how very much He loves me, how very much He loves you, how very much He loves the easy and … Continue reading →
Have you really thought about The Rapture? When our Savior’s angels are sentwith a loud trumpet call to bring us homehome from “the four winds”from one end of the heavens to the other” (Matthew 24:31)Angels come to bring us home!No time to pack. No time to say, “I’m sorry.”No time for hugs!No time for new salvation.“In a flash, in the … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago on a schools-just-started Friday afternoon, my son and his girlfriend’s family were baptized by the Waterloo Cascades on the Spring Creek River. He’d chosen to be baptized when he was in third grade, but wanted to renew his commitment as a young man. One after one – a first grader, middle schooler, a high school student, … Continue reading →
In the Spring, I started Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace. I’d started it a few times, but grew faint-hearted. The beginning made me doubt I was equipped to endure. That it was the top-selling book behind the Bible from its publication in 1880 until Gone With the Wind’s publication had put it on my shelves as a goal. I loved Dickens, … Continue reading →
I love creating the setting for family and friend gatherings – the table, the food – to create a memory worth keeping. I’ve learned a few things about my boys. The outdoor gatherings, where we eat outdoors, with some cornhole, maybe croquet, a soccer ball – when it’s outside they’re more likely to stay longer, laugh more, let the relationships … Continue reading →
“If life looks like you expected it to look, then you’re doing something wrong” – that’s the thought that came to mind while I was blanching tomatoes the other day. Today I’m 59 and Friday, I will celebrate 38 years with my Forever Man. I’m throwing My Plan Book out the window. My expectations? Just a drop in the bucket … Continue reading →
It’s my birthday month – so I am going to do something totally decadent. I’m going to repost some of my favorites. Lead Me to The Water was initially the first of two separate posts 1) Lead Me to the Water, the poem followed by 2) The Story Behind the Poem: The Elephant in the Room. They are combined here. … Continue reading →
Over 25 years ago, a friend invited me to church – over and over and over again. I’d told her, I’d bent to Baptist – and just didn’t think I could bend to this new church. It would probably break me. In retrospect, I was probably scared of something so very different. I was still hungry for more of God. … Continue reading →
“And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants” (Jeremiah 32:39 NLT). There’s beauty and grace when you meet someone following hard their dream who invites you along and encourages the development of your dream. Alisa Hope Wagner is one of those people. … Continue reading →
