My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me (John 10:27, NASB). When do we begin learning to recognize voices? My younger daughter, Cait, taught me the answer shortly after her birth. She had been born in the wee hours of September 30th, and I was exhausted from the excitement…
By Karen Remember when you were a young child, beginning life’s journey full of hopes and dreams for the future? Along the way, you lost your precious dreams as you traveled down the highway of life. Perhaps someone stole them, so you mourned their loss and believed they were gone forever. Or an unexpected accident…
Doesn’t every little girl grow up dreaming about her special day—that day when she will walk down the aisle on her father’s arm and be given away to her waiting groom? Prior to the internet, all we had were bridal magazines and our imaginations. But these days, social media has introduced brides-to-be to Pinterest, hosting hundreds of ideas for their…
Can you imagine that Christmas is exactly one week away? In honor of the season, I’d like to share with you a previously published post from Christmas, 2014. I hope it will be a blessing to you today. Do the approaching holidays bring you joy? Or not? Everywhere you go, anticipation of Christmas Day abounds….
A small girl rushes through the back door of her house, slamming the screen door behind her. Her tousled blonde hair is full of scraps of leaves and dirt, and a smear of blood crosses the front of her trousers at the knee. “Mommy!” she wails piteously. Her mother bursts into the room in…
