Saying Yes Ain’t All It’s Cracked up to be.- Angela O’Shaugnessy

Saying Yes Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
I’ll say yes, Lord, I’ll say yes
To your will, Lord, I’ll say yes.
Where you lead me, I will go.
I’ll say yes, Lord, I’ll say yes.
When I enter into the presence of the Lord singing this chorus, my zeal for God seems [...]

Fall and Possibility- Joanna Tillman

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to appreciate things that are new? The first brisk fall mornings with their puffy grey skies and turning leaves. The first snow of the year. The first day of school. I remember even feeling a little tinge of excitement at opening a new [...]

Quote for the Week

No man- I don’t care how colossal his intellect- No man is greater than his prayer life.
-Leonard Ravenhill

How to Live With Dust Bunnies and Enjoy Them

“I learned how to live with dust bunnies and enjoy it.”
I always like to feel I am contributing something useful to other folks’ lives. So that is what my sister-in-law gleaned a few years back, when she and her family stayed with us for a couple of weeks while they waited for their new house [...]

The Banana Peel at the Starting Line

by Sabrina Justison

The runner is in place.
Her shoes are double-knotted, her muscles stretched and warm, her body hydrated. She is wearing her favorite color of spandex, and her ponytail feels secure. Every muscle tensed, she waits for the sound of the starter pistol.
But just as that pistol fires, some troublemaking knucklehead tosses a [...]

Quote for the Week

Our aim is not to do what Jesus said but to become the KIND of people who would naturally do them.
-Dallas Willard