This is how it feels to be hopeless. I identified the feeling as I stood in our dining room in Pittsburgh in […]

Surely God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid (Isaiah 12:2 NIV). At my eight-month maternity check up, my […]

Two weeks ago, I talked about loving mercy (Micah 6:8) and things God is teaching me. As I explored the Scriptures for […]

God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also […]

I’ve read Micah 6:8 more times than I can count and could probably come close to quoting it word for word: He […]

Many years ago I was having a lot of pain in my back. One day as I visited friends, Danielle,* a woman […]

They asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?’ (Mark 16:3 NIV)  Can you sense […]

  Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand (Psalm 73:23 NIV). When I was in tenth […]

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance (Psalm 16:6 NIV). On a hot […]

  Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful (Colossians 4:1 NIV). Another treasured memory from my childhood is the way my mother […]