This month has been a roller coaster ride. I have experienced the satisfaction of helping someone in a very practical way, the grief over the illness and death of a close friend, joy over good test results for my husband while walking with him through a rough couple of days after a minor surgical procedure.…
Read MoreFor to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21 A man told me recently that God was wrong to take people home who are good witnesses for Him. He had one particular witness in mind who was dying of cancer. He seemed to believe there will be fewer people in…
Read MoreAnd he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.” Luke 18:29-30 When…
Read MoreHowever, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Ephesians 5:33 “If only I had known these things before we were married I would never have gone through with the wedding.” “How did I get here?” “He made so many promises he…
Read More“I don’t have time for this right now.” How often do we hear it? How often do we say it? If you are like me sometimes it’s even worse — you mean it. I can even be doing something for someone else (that I agreed to do) and I don’t say it aloud but on…
Read MoreIt is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house with a quarrelsome wife. Proverbs 21:9 A friend once told me that when she gets to heaven one of her first questions for the Lord will be, “Men, women, same house? Was that really Your plan?” Though I do not…
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