“The story of the Bible is Emmanuel.” One of our pastors said this in a sermon a few weeks back, and I’ve been rolling it over in my head ever since. As a result, I’ve seen the overarching story of the Bible in a whole new way. Though during Advent our focus is the child promised in Isaiah, the one …
What Medical Bills and a Broken Radio Taught Me About Forgiveness
A couple weeks before Christmas, my husband was hanging lights on our house when the ladder collapsed, taking him with it. He suffered a nasty gash on the back of his ankle, which—to make a very, very long story very, very short—got infected, went septic, and landed him in the hospital for nine days. As you can imagine, nine days …
Use Your Words
Any of us who have survived the toddler phase with our little darlings have undoubtedly told those darlings, more times than we care to count, to “use your words.” Sometimes I still have to say this to mine, despite the fact that all three of them have long since graduated from toddlerhood. If I’m feeling especially obnoxious, I sing the …
The Apostle Paul, Cool Runnings, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders
I have a four-year-old daughter, and like many other four-year-old daughters, she is obsessed with “My Little Pony.” While I rarely sit and watch an episode with her (her TV time is my Responsibility Champion time), the episodes I have seen in full are quickly making me a fan. The writing is great, the characters are superb, and there’s a …
Living in the World of Saturday
This is something I posted to my personal Facebook page last year, and it resonated with a lot of people. I’m re-posting it here; I pray it blesses your Easter Saturday. *** For me, something that has always been lost in the shuffle of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and Easter Sunday is this day. Saturday. The day after Jesus …