Two Is One [The ant] stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6:8 here’s an old survivalist motto that my husband is fond of using (typically when I ask if three cartons of milk in our weekly online grocery order...
Spiritual Habits
Living in the Moment
Living in the Moment This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24 hen was little, my neighbor lived with her Sicilian grandmother who would make us homemade pizza. She has since passed, and I often dream...
Going Between
Going BetweenIn the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. Romans 8:26ntercede: verb: to intervene on behalf of another; the word's...
Listen and Learn
Listen and Learn Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him and be strong in your faith. 1 Peter 5:8-9 ast week Sarah wrote about the...
Christ-like Community
Christ-like Community Although I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink; instead I hope to come to you and talk with you face to face, so that our joy may be complete. 2 John 1:12 very morning this fall, a darling friend of...
Coming Alongside
Coming Alongside There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. Proverbs 18:24b oday I volunteered at my daughter's high school cross country meet. My job was to stand at the finish line and after finishing the race, guide the runners to enter...
A Simple Calling
A Simple Calling I, James, am writing this letter. I serve God and the Lord Jesus Christ, I am sending this letter to you, the 12 tribes scattered among the nations. James 1:1 set a recent goal to read my Bible more. It's a seemingly simple goal,...
Invitation To A Feast
Invitation To A FeastIn Jerusalem, the Lord of Heaven's Armies will spread a wonderful feast for all the people of the world. It will be a delicious banquet with clear, well-aged wine and choice meat. Isaiah 25:6 (NLT)Ilove breakfast food. Pancakes dripping with...
Time For A Vision Check
Time For A Vision CheckFor he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. 2 Peter 1:9 (ESV)SNAP! I looked down in dismay as my almost two-year-old offered back to me my only pair of eyeglasses-in two...
It’s All About Him
It's All About HimI have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Galatians 2:20 (ESV)J oe and I joined a...
Valuable Real Estate
Valuable Real EstateYou have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Colossians 3:9b-10 (NIV)I recently discovered that my night stand has a real estate problem. Since...