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"Amazing grace! How sweet the sound." John Newton I spent a good deal of time in the marching band when I was in high school. We would...

“What the gospel does is make the miracle routine and the routine a miracle .” Eugene Peterson More and more, the thing that seems most...

You are on a journey today. A thought, worry, interaction, or experience can send you off in a good or bad way. You are always going...

“Although time seems to fly by, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the...

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”  John Bunyan Imagine the darkness, the...

I recently received a gift from one of my children, who has a minimal income. It was a box filled with things to delight me. It meant...

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston Have you ever noticed that people often have favorite...

Have you ever considered how you move through the world? Do you burst on the scene as a leader? Do you come gently, offering grace with...

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” Lily Tomlin I learned something about myself in college on a running trail. My college campus...

“Your life is a sacred journey…You are on the path…exactly where you are meant to be right now.” Caroline Adams Miller Before I even knew...

“The longest journey is the twelve inches from your head to your heart.” John Ortberg Have you ever thought about that? If Ortberg is...

"I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott There...

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" Victor Hugo I enjoy a good mystery story. I like seeing how...

We played a new game this past week. It was a multi-dimensional strategy game - a mind-bender that required us to pay attention and think...

“What makes life good is not a particular set of circumstances but how the heart interacts with them.” Tim Keller Like many families, we...

“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a...

“Hope is joyous anticipation of good that is not yet here or is unseen.” Dallas Willard “The people walking In darkness have seen a great...

I was greeted by a man in a Santa hat when I went to pick up my car from the shop the other day. It was a damp, dreary, rainy day. His...

“It was in the season of Christmas that I came out of my little garden…and began to walk backwards through history to the place from...

A friend forwarded a photo to me of her 6 month old granddaughter. The essence of this little girl jumped out at me, her joyful smile...

“A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.” Thomas Jefferson My Aunt Jeanie was different from my other aunts. She was tall...

“The best journey takes you home.”* Home. The word itself seems to call out to us. It’s good to be home. Home is the place where you...

The sound of silence is growing at our house as our children are becoming young adults. One of the things I sometimes miss is the sound...

“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.” Jill Churchill G.K. Chesterton once shared a delightful...