by Rebeca Jones The wrinkly stranger pooped. Again. I looked up at the kind nurse charting my vitals and gestured feebly. “Do you want me to show you again, honey?” Her eyes crinkled a bit as she set down her clipboard and grabbed a new diaper from the bag of freebies on my bedside tray. …
by Janis Cox While travelling with my hubby as few years ago for 10 days in Poland I did not take my computer – only an IPAD. Even with it there was not much time to login, check email and social media. That was a good thing because I learned a little multimedia might be…
Recently, our family received what looked like a huge answer to prayer. Something we had been bringing before the Lord for months, years even, appeared to finally be coming to a head. Things were moving forward and a door which had been slightly ajar for some time looked like it might swing wide open for…
Lately, I feel the Lord is prompting me to spend more time in prayer. I pray daily, but I don’t usually carve out a specific time to pray over the people in my life. It’s time to not only pray in general, but to make my prayer time more specific and dedicated. I need to…
By Beth Biggers “It’s no big deal.” Name a problem and that is my title for it: No Big Deal. Financial stress? No big deal. Kids sick again? No big deal. Can’t get out of bed without crying? No. Big. Deal. Of course, this only applies to my own problems. I have all the compassion…
Identity by Beth Biggers It was a brisk fall day, a few years ago. My youth pastor and dear friend of our family had asked me to share my testimony with our group of junior high and high school girls. The theme of that week’s Fall Retreat had been “Identity.” I was supposed to share…
