Column Post by Laura Hyers “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.” – Exodus 20:8-10a I married a workaholic. I knew how he was before I married him, and I know him […]
Month: August 2012
As we learn to leave well enough alone
Column Post by Lakin Easterling You know that feeling you get when something that hurt you, something that left a scratch or a burn or a gash, starts healing? That constant itchy, uncomfortable, reminder that something didn’t go the way you planned? By a show of hands, who likes that feeling? I sure don’t. If […]
The Rest of the Story
Guest post by Karen Trigg “Would you be willing to share more of your story?” At a ministry team-planning session with young moms, Meredith asked to hear in more detail the story she had only briefly heard. A story of how my marriage really began as I came to the end of myself. “Will […]
Freeing your thoughts by feeding on truth
Column Post by Beth Cranford There we sat, in the emergency room, awaiting a CT scan for our preschooler. He had taken a hard fall on the garage floor about two hours earlier. The doctors were pretty sure he had a mild concussion. A dangerous thing can happen to your mind when there’s time to […]
Call of a Coward–the God of Moses and the Middle-Class Housewife (An interview with Marcia Moston)
The problem with promising God you’ll follow Him wherever He leads is that you just might have to go. I suspect it would be easier if you were certain of His calling—like stepping out the door and seeing the lilac bush on fire and hearing a voice commanding you. But when it’s your husband who […]
When craving approval has you chasing your tail
Column Post by Aj Luck We have a Golden Retriever named Carson. Occasionally Carson will glimpse something out of the corner of his eye and get all excited. It’s moving and must be caught, and the chase for his tail is on! Round and round he twirls in a feverish effort to catch it. Fearing […]
If you could see that you are a poet
Column Post by Lisa Easterling “Like the nectar of the bee, which turns to honey the dust of flowers, or like that liquor which converts lead into gold, the poet has a breath that fills out words, gives them light and color. He knows wherein consists their charm, and by what art enchanted structures may […]
Courage to climb every mountain
Column Post by Glenda Harbinson I recently found a new song by Bill and Karen Itzel that speaks to my heart. There was a time I used to pray God take the mountains out of my way Lord if you could make it easy for me I could be all you want me to be […]
When we are too busy thinking to thank
Column Post by Laura Hyers It’s pouring rain today inTampa. I love rain, and rainy days, but sometimes I think myself into a funk. Maybe you do the same thing, where you have no reason to be unhappy except that your brain simply can’t stop swirling around and over-thinking everything. Today has been one of […]
The curious benefit of writer’s block
Column Post by Lakin Easterling Frequently I struggle with doing anything on time. I procrastinate, yes, but it’s usually because I’m thinking: thinking of ways to word things, thinking of the best way to accomplish something, thinking of the most effective solution, how to achieve the most desirable outcome, or how to even begin. A […]