God had worked miracles. Moved mountains. And I was still stressing over money. I stared at my eight-fifty an hour paycheck and the mortgage book in my hand and my calculating mind couldn’t make it work. I wish I could say that I trusted, I wish I could say I knew, but I didn’t. I fretted. Forgot…
My faith was small. It could not be compared to even a mustard seed. Perhaps more like a chive seed. A fleck of black on your palm. Too small to hold between your fingers but visible. I was working every day at the bank at four-corners in the center of town. The one in the…
I was eighteen. I braved the storms so expertly. I faced the sorrows so bravely. I proclaimed so very loudly that the God I served calmed wind and waves and I had no reason to fear. It was true but I didn’t really know it. There was head-knowledge that had not turned into heart-knowledge…
I couldn’t sleep last night. Again. The rain was falling on our tin roof so I sat on the couch and listened to the symphony. When five o’clock snuck up, I sat down at the computer to catch up reading a few blogs. And in the reading the question was asked, “What is saving your…
I was fifteen the first time I stepped foot into another country. The blistering heat, the half naked children running the streets, the stench of open sewers. It ruined me. Shook the core of my American idealist mentality. Left my soul thirsting for truth. I promised myself, right there on those dust covered streets, that…
We’ve been a bit discouraged lately. Three crops of great-looking calves have died. The vet says we’re deficient in some mineral so we’re giving shots and praying that these ones live. I stop to get milk, same as every day. Except this time there is a cut on my thumb. A touch to the stainless…
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