Earlier this year I had a profound dream that affected me greatly. I was not “seeing myself” in the dream, but experiencing it directly: The setting was a dimly lit room where two older men (in their 60s) were talking. One, whose face I...
Encouragement
I began teaching Sunday School at the tender age of 11, but to put this in perspective, I taught the 3 to 5-year-olds. It was more like glorified babysitting! I quickly learned that if you had crayons and songs, you could even get the...
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing! My husband and I were standing in the checkout line on a recent Saturday afternoon. A young boy around age 8-10 was waiting at the front of the store with his grandmother, who was seated at a...
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones” (Proverbs 17:22). We have all heard and referenced this verse at some time. We know and have experienced that a good belly laugh really makes you feel good...
We know God is listening when we receive answers to our big prayers, those major requests that only His providence can make happen. But there is sometimes greater joy in His unexpected, but on-purpose responses to minor incidents in our lives. These are the...