Complicated Hope

 “You are either a Missionary or a Mission Field. You choose.”   D. Terry Wilson It is quite humbling to think that God trusts us. Every one of us.  In our bumbling, stumbling, self-centered paranoia, God trusts us to tell us about His love.  …and so God made us to be Missionaries. I had the…

Today we celebrate the life of our daughter! She is light and joy and sparkle and common sense and dry humor and grace all in one amazing bundle of pink and precious love.

No one does this well. Not one person I know is great at waiting. Though we all have plenty of time to exercise this skill, somehow we don’t get any better at it. “Wait on the LORD: Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Wait, I say,…

“Abram called on the name of the Lord,” Genesis 13:4. Since May of 2022 I have been studying Genesis. A ‘back to the basics’ approach but with a twist: Finding Jesus in Genesis. Genealogies, metaphors and imagery abound that point to Jesus, the Savior. It’s been fascinating and it’s been…

It’s one of the current buzz-terms coined from the technological age in which we live. If you’ve used a computer or phone in the past 30 years, you’ve seen that annoying little circle in the middle of the screen that is like a fast-moving stop watch. It implies the computer…

As the daughter, granddaughter and niece of ministers, I’ve been honored to be the guest in so many people’s homes. Big houses, little houses. Mansions and shacks by the railroad tracks. I’ve been in a house made from a school bus and I’ve ran races through a “shot-gun house”, where…

Psalms 23: A Psalm of David The Lord  is  my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the…

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  All things were created through Him and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.  In him was life, and that life…

“Home is where the heart is.” Pliny the Elder “There’s no place like home.” Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost The past 8 weeks have been beyond busy. Let’s back up –…