I never again want to see the look I saw in the eyes of my precious little girl the night she suddenly came under attack from a sickness that made it difficult for her to breathe. She’d completely lost her voice, too, but she didn’t have to say anything because the panic in her eyes told the whole story. Doing … Read More
The Art Of Contentment
As the summer of 2015 approached, we knew it was going to be one for the family record books. What I didn’t know, however, was how much it would test my character, my contentment, and, on some days even, my Christianity. On June 1, we loaded the last box into the storage container, closed the garage door, and backed the … Read More
Treasure Fields
The Joy of Finding What God Has Been Hiding In July 2012, TIME magazine reported on a man in Defiance, Ohio, named Karl Kissner, who found a green box packed with twine in the attic of his late aunt’s home. Inside the box was a large collection of baseball cards, most probably belonging to the home’s previous owner, his … Read More
The Weight Of Love
“Life is not measured by how much you own” (Luke 12:15 nlt). These are Jesus’ words in response to a man who was almost certainly expecting to hear something else. Jesus had been preaching a message that was full of life-changing, eternity-altering truth to a large crowd that day. Of course, that could be said of everything Jesus preached, but … Read More