You and I have been the victims of the (almost) perfect crime. This morning I was reminded of this fact that we rarely realize as I drove one of my three teenagers to another town. Some of the best conversations happen unplanned while driving together. I am often surprised at what I can learn when we are inside those four doors on wheels with the road stretching out before … [Read more...] about The (Almost) Perfect Crime
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How To Survive Separation Anxiety The Right Way
I had read about separation anxiety in my parenting books, but how bad could it really be? My son was five months old and, frankly, I needed a full night's sleep! I was foolish enough then to think I was some super mom doing everything right because my son always seemed content. We were inseparable his first five months, mostly because I was scared to death something would happen to him if I … [Read more...] about How To Survive Separation Anxiety The Right Way
Unfathomable
"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him..." Job 13:15 (KJV) Have you ever tried to figure out what God is doing in your life? Funny how I seldom--okay, never--question Him when great things are going on. But when life gets difficult, I can start playing the maddening game of trying to understand what He might be doing. At first, I try to be calm and patient. I try … [Read more...] about Unfathomable
Why Favoritism Robs Us
My son asked me to pick up a library book for him last week for his social studies class assignment. I am an absolute history LOVER. If I could plan my dream vacation, I would make the theme around some locations in which the history of our country happened on a grand scale. I guess my love of history can be summed up as a study of human reactions to circumstances. I love trying to understand why … [Read more...] about Why Favoritism Robs Us
God’s Amazing Gifts: Dependency
Would you describe yourself as being self-reliant?I learned to be self-reliant when I went away to boarding school as a sophomore in high school. I didn't realize what was happening at the time to my heart. I would grow up and marry a wonderful man, but I had unconsciously made a promise to myself that I would never let my heart truly love him the way I wanted or needed to. As a missionary kid … [Read more...] about God’s Amazing Gifts: Dependency
God’s Amazing Gifts: Lost
All of us can remember that terrifying moment as small children when we were separated from our parent in a grocery or department store. There are emotions that rush to the forefront of my mind, burned in my memory, when I think of being lost:Fear,helplessness,a sense of being forgotten,not belonging."For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost." Luke 19:10All of us have been lost. … [Read more...] about God’s Amazing Gifts: Lost
