My Thank You List

O Lord my God, you have done many miracles for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them. Psalms 40:5 (NLT) Things Like This:              ...

His Plans

We Christians love the verse in Jeremiah 29:11 that says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. We print it in gold letters on birthday cards and graduation...

Yes and Amen

My friend, Robyn, stumbled across this picture recently and brought it to me. I am thrilled, because I remember this moment. Well, probably not the exact moment. But I remember this season when our good friend thought he was going to lose his medical profession...

Somewhere in France

Somewhere in France today, a little boy has grown into a young man and will soon be planting a thriving church. That’s what I imagine anyway. Let me explain: More than fifteen years ago, Wendell and I went around the world at Epcot Center in four crazy hours....

The Look

Weddings are so beautiful and so full of hope. Two couples we love were married last weekend in neighboring states. We didn’t make either celebration because we were focusing on some fruit from our own wedding day: grandchildren. But I thought of those couples...

Trust the Map

It’s hard to miss a mountain. But I did. An entire range of them skirting the edge of a city, in fact. I had never driven in Casper, Wyoming, before except for a short trip to Wal Mart that same morning. But when my daughter-in-law got sick and all the men were...