I can’t believe it—the sun is shining! Have you ever taken sunlight for granted until it disappeared for weeks on end? I have, but no more. Today I’m praising God for Monday morning sunlight in the middle of January!
This weekend we had dinner with two other Safe Haven families. How I needed the intimacy of […]

In my prayer group last week, we spent time in Lectio Divina on Isaiah 43:1-7. The verses that spoke to my life circumstances were these: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the […]

“Faithfulness opens the door to the spiritual insight that it is not the amount of darkness in the world or in us that is crucial. In the end, it is how we stand in that darkness that really matters. Moreover, sometimes it is paradoxically during faithfulness in the darkness, not in the light, that we […]

Yesterday our hot tub, which is located on the deck in back of the house, burst into flames. I heard a loud crackling over the soundtrack of Finding Neverland, which I was watching on DVD. I wasn’t supposed to be home lying on the couch. I’d cancelled two appointments that morning because I […]