By Jackie Freeman For everything, there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, ESV) “What is your favorite season?” When I was asked that question recently,…
By Shannon Leibold I’m 45 and going back to school, hoping the old adage ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ simply isn’t true. It’s my biggest regret. While my church friends were praying and planning for their post-secondary education, many of them heading off to Bible College in pursuit of the call God…
By Susan Smith The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. —Joseph Campbell In Bible study, my young friend asked me an insightful question. “How do you know when God is near you?” After a moment of contemplation, I said, “I feel…
by Kate A. Coker-Daisie I wasn’t the smartest math whiz in elementary or grade school, and when I went to the University, I often needed extra tutoring to understand and apply the mathematical concepts taught in class. What came natural to me was my ability to communicate in a way that evoked the right emotions…
by Eugene C. Scott Two months after our wedding The Redheaded-Wildflower (my wife Dee Dee) ventured into the magnificent mountains I first experienced backpacking when I was in ninth grade. Crater Lake sleeps high in the Colorado Rockies and boasts solitude, formidable fishing, romantic nights under a billion stars, and the glacier I’d nearly lost…
By Sue Donaldson I’m fully aware that we become mothers to teach us humility. Just when we’re about to understand who we really are, our Junior High angst is almost a thing of the past, we may have finished a college degree or two, and even used that degree in a semi-significant manner—about then, we…
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