Photo Credit: PDP, via Pixabay Her name is Magda. At age 15, she packed a suitcase with only two outfits and left behind everything else she knew. Her parents were not able to come, so she boarded the plane alone. Once her feet landed on U.S. soil, she worked. First, she sweat it out at…
Photo Credit: Manfred Zimmer, via Pixabay During our first year of marriage, Bruce came home with a ginormous flat screen television set, and I bawled. I had decorated the armoire in the middle of our living room with family photos, Scripture art, and mementos from our wedding day. Now, that display would be replaced…
I want to drink God, deep draughts of God. I’m thirsty for God-alive. Psalms 42: 1, MSG LORD JESUS, Give me a deeper repentance, a horror of sin, a dread of its approach; Help me chastely to flee it, and jealously to resolve that my heart shall be thine alone. Give me…
Last night I spent some time at a friend’s house, and she showed me her extensive music collection. She had music from every era and genre – contemporary Christian, 70’s rock, disco, Motown, Gospel choir albums. She had over one hundred albums. The problem is that every single one is on cassette. I…
Photo Credit: Kai Stachowiak, via Pixabay Last night, after we ate dinner, I gathered together the ingredients for a hearty stew and plugged in the crock pot. (My unending thanks to whoever invented this lovely appliance.) In just a few minutes, the whole house smelled so yummy. We left the stroganoff percolating as we…
Crossroad I’m in the valley of discontent Where my passion brews, and my heart is rent. The way stretches dark and long As I march on wearily to an unknown song. I pray for a clearing, a cliff or a peak As relentlessly onward a haven I seek. Where is it leading? Where will I…