“One! Two! Three! Go!” my granddaughter calls out… She races down the sidewalk giggling and looking to see if I am far behind… At two she’s proud of her counting skills and even prouder that she can outrace me. Sometimes she runs before she gets to “three”… “One! “Two!” and […]
Monthly Archives: April 2014
20 posts
“Hi, Brenda”, said the order taker. “The usual today?” “You know me”, Brenda replied. The fast food restaurant was busy. “It’ll take just a minute today.I’ll bring it out to you, Brenda.” She had eaten lunch at the restaurant every day for the last month. The staff thought she must […]
Sometimes I foolishly think I am in charge of my daily calendar… Then God steps in and creates a moment that could only come from Him. This is the story of a day when He took over my calendar and introduced me to two people who taught me a lot […]
19 Bible verses to help us resist temptation when we face it… Read them now or print and save them for later… 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but […]
He was desperate for the job… He had faith in his own abilities… But he was desperate for this job… And so he prayed… “God I deserve this job. You know I earned it. Please get it for me.” She was desperate for Jesus…
It had been a long day…a really long day… New problems had presented themselves practically every minute… Driving home I was proud of how I had handled all the challenges. As my self congratulatory mood expanded, I marveled at how I had acted… How I hadn’t lost my patience once… How […]
I was eavesdropping on the people at the next table…not that they were trying to keep their conversation private… We were in one of those specialty coffee shops where the WIFI is the only thing free… The tables are fairly close together… and the people talk as if they are alone… […]
If the project succeeded, he expected a raise. Maybe even a promotion… Our toddler granddaughter had been very good… and she knew it. Looking at us with an expectant twinkle in her eye, she asked a one word question, “Cookie?” In just a few months he would retire after […]
Are you an adventurer? A story of three everyday adventures… and the one adventure that truly matters… Adventure #1 The phone rang… I was almost asleep… “You have to go see the moon.” my daughter said. “It’s low on the horizon. It’s big , it’s orange, and it’s beautiful… Abandoning […]
People noticed him when he walked into the room… He was in his twenties, six feet tall and had more muscle in one arm than I have in my whole body. And yet, somehow, he didn’t look healthy. The dark circles under his eyes gave him an air of fatigue. […]