Recently we heard a testimony from a friend who lives in Northern Africa where his family helps fledging farmers build dairy herds. He shared about a season of deep discouragement, where it felt like too much heaviness, too much death, too many questions. He got a call late at night from a farmer with a…
More than once I’ve heard Christians calling each other to what sounds like blind obedience to Christ. Phrases like, just obey or it doesn’t matter how you feel or if the Bible says it, just do it can be thrown around in explanations of how to live out our faith. While there may be specific…
Every woman who has grown up in the church or dwelt in our midst for some length of time has probably heard of the Proverbs 31 woman. She’s a master of everything. Brilliant, kind, wise. She works at home but is also a successful entrepreneur who makes enough to care for her family and the…
The room was bright and harsh for three in the morning. I was shaking, hard, much as I had been for the past two days, even though the pain had mostly settled out. There was blood smeared across my bare stomach and my hands had speckles of dried blood across them. My doctor was still…
I was ten years old the year I broke my arm. It wasn’t a very exciting accident. I fell about 2 feet and tried to catch myself with my right arm. This proved to be not the best idea. I spent the beginning of summer with my arm in a blue cast. At that point…
I was thirteen when I had an emergency appendectomy. That morning I woke up not feeling well and after hearing me complain about intense stomach pain, my mom bundled me up and took me to Urgent Care. The doctor looked at me for a few minutes then sent us directly to the emergency room. At…
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