“…sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool”   Psalm 110:1 It was a short verse, at that 4 am rising, but the minute I read it, it hit me: There is something about where we sit and what happens to our enemies. right there on the same page, are promises […]

It had been another frantic Sunday morning. If I had lain the children’s clothes out the night before, we wouldn’t have had battles over mismatching clothes. Help me, Lord.  If I had trained my kids better about putting shoes away in their shoe bins, we wouldn’t have spent 20 minutes franticly looking under couches and […]

“In the beginning….” I read it again, just as I did at this time last year. Beginning a new Bible reading plan, in hopes that THIS year there won’t be quite so many gaps in my completion of it. Last year I had begun the year with high hopes and simple and tangible goals. A […]

I picked up the kiddos from their amazing school in the wealthy, sheltered part of town. The magnificent building, the pristine landscaping, the haven that the school and church property is… This place has been a great blessing in our lives. When I drive through its parking lot dotted with gorgeous red maples, it seems […]

It’s all his fault. He made me do it. Just if he hadn’t written that little book. Just if it hadn’t hit such a chord in my soul. Just if I hadn’t begun to pray that prayer based on what he had written. “I cannot-and only God can….It means bowing to the fact that you […]

But this kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting. (Matthew 17:21) It kept ruminating around in my head.  I personally had decided to fast multiple times over the course of the past two months, but as soon as crisis hit, or the exhaustion set in, it was just too easy to reach for […]

They were all piled on the bed. Sprawled out during our nightly family devotions. We are reading through the Bible as a family, and we’re camped out in the book of Numbers right now. I know, I know, not exactly an attention-grabber book of the Bible for little ones. But you would be surprise, how […]