Meet Tiffany: Resting in Trust
Six weeks of guest blogs was my plan, but God must have wanted seven! I couldn’t resist letting you meet one of my newest friends. Tiffany Bobkowski’s precious family will soon grow to six with the addition of a little girl from China. Their story is one the Jacksons are all too familiar with. As you read […]
Meet Lindsey: A Holy Rest
Young women with a heart for God energize me better than a 2 o’clock cup of caffeine. Lindsey (Gillen) Vollenweider does my heart good. Even as an elementary-aged kid in my Sunday school class, I knew there was something special about her. Her family is one of those good ones – the kind that puts […]
Meet Lauri: A Trophy of God’s Grace
A hands-on-the-hips-cocked-eyebrow-Garfield poster used to hang above my desk at school with a caption that read: “You can’t scare me – I teach!” School teachers, as a rule, have heard enough excuses, dealt with enough bad home situations, and disciplined enough disrespectful students to qualify them as fearless and savvy. However, Lauri King personifies the […]
Meet Raymona: The Wisdom of Grandmothers
This grandmother has had a crazy week that’s proved God’s got every moment of our lives in His hands. Our job is to trust Him. After another week of homeschooling under my belt, we all made our way to Baltimore for a Benjamin visit. He suffered a setback that sent him back to the operating […]
Meet Carol: A Time to Cast
Thank you for continuing to pray for our little grandson Benjamin. He is doing remarkably well, and according to Jennifer, the nurses are smitten with that sweet little smile that cause his eyes to disappear into his cheeks. We will finally get our hands on him (and Jennifer!) in Baltimore at the end of the […]
Meet Kelly: “Why Do Good People Die?”
It doesn’t take long to identify good people. They have a softness about them that immediately throws a lasso around your heart gently pulling you near. Although I taught Kelly Smith’s younger brother, I didn’t get to know Kelly until we purchased the farm right across the street from where she lived with her husband […]
Meet Barbara: “The Price We Pay”
How can you like someone you’ve never met? Barbara Bice and I met through a very dear mutual friend. We have emailed back and forth and feel like we know each other. I feel a face-to-face encounter happening very soon. Her book, Just Right, hooked me with the very first paragraph and I didn’t put it down […]
Be of Some Use
It’s 98 degrees. Droplets of sweat join hands to waterslide down your back. You’re sure you can hear them screaming, “Weeeeee!” from your neckline all the way to your waistband. Oh, what you wouldn’t give for just half a bottle of water straight from the fridge. Just a few months ago it was a frigid […]
Hannah, Save a Place for Me
What could God be up to when He allows a life to be dramatically torn into two distinct pieces? For Hannah Mayfield, my cousin’s daughter, the first 16 years were fairly typical for a young, energetic, Christian girl. Family. Friends. School. Sports. Each one interwoven with a passionate love for Jesus. Then, with the suddenness […]
Need a Joy Booster?
The first thing my mom remembers seeing on her family’s first television set was a black and white Godchaux Sugar commercial. (Wouldn’t you just know it was a commercial?) However, the earliest TV milestone I remember formed when we plugged in our brand new color TV just in time to see a fluttering Tinker Bell […]
