devotional
July 2, 2021
I have experienced God’s joy–truly unexpected and inexplicable–in the midst of the deepest of sorrows. I have been able to shout authentic hurrahs at the harvest […]
November 7, 2020
Life doesn’t always play out the way we dreamed it would. We expect the happily-ever-after to stay indefinitely, but sometimes we find ourselves in circumstances we […]
August 9, 2020
My garden starts out beautiful every spring. It boasts lots of color and variety. White button flowers, purple and pink tulips, yellow daffodils, and peony buds […]
July 10, 2020
Hope is powerful. It can spur us on to act with courage, sustain us when we feel weak and too weary to take another step, and […]
June 7, 2020
I rarely have difficulty falling asleep at night. In fact, my husband says I often fall asleep even before my head hits the pillow. The trouble […]
April 14, 2020
I can vividly remember sitting in the conference room at Hume Lake Christian Camp in the Sierra Nevadas as a room full of teenagers listened to […]
April 5, 2020
“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9). This is a verse we quote often to one […]
February 23, 2020
Have you ever thought how easy it would be to have a strong faith if we were able to witness the miracles we read about in […]
December 25, 2019
I was driving behind a car the other day with a bumper sticker that said, “Keep Christ in Christmas” written underneath a simple sketch of a […]