It had been a wearying five days even for me who thrived on being busy. With two sets of supper company, a run to the city, supper plans another night, and hot lunch at school, I had my days filled… Continue reading

I rarely read the news, oft times just scanning the headlines. But once in a while, a heading would catch my attention and I’d read. This had been one of those mornings. “Trump threatens to block opening of US-Canada bridge.”… Continue reading

I had listened to a book the previous year about the spirits of darkness and the realities of the spirit world. And when I heard a minister speak one day about these spirits I could understand where he was coming… Continue reading

The Sunday school lesson that morning had been on Jesus feeding the five thousand with the five loaves and two fishes. We had become a little sidetracked from the miracle part of it because of a question that was asked.… Continue reading

I don’t know what I was doing that day when the words from Matthew 18:35 struck my heart in such a profound way. It was like the windows of Heaven were opened and God made himself known to me. I… Continue reading

I love January 1 for the same reason I, for the most part, love Mondays. A clean page, a fresh start, a new beginning. The Sunday before New Year’s Day, our minister mentioned resolutions as a passing thought in his… Continue reading

I read her story online. Her husband had died and she was trying to raise her children alone as a single mom. Beginning at the first year, along with her children’s gifts, she had purchased herself one too. Then, while… Continue reading

I had been praying for someone for so long now that I couldn’t even count the number of times I had done so. I had included them in my morning and evening prayer. I had sighed prayers for them while… Continue reading

They were the Schmidt sisters. I had first learned to know of them during Covid when church services and group singing had been streamed out while we all hunkered down in our homes. Although I thought they sang beautifully together,… Continue reading

I had never heard God speak to me about this particular thing before, and even as I heard the words that day about covetousness, I didn’t think too much about it. I had always thought of covetousness as earthly possessions,… Continue reading