Funny but this morning I remember a time when one of my favorite vases was broken by one of my children. I was heart broken. Now I can say that I wish that was the most heart breaking thing I’ve ever endured. But we all know about broken hearts. Each of us has our own endurance and have overcome much. Your broken heart and mine might look different but broken is broken. Oh beloved, you would love to be able to just pick up the pieces and put your broken heart back together again. But God wants you to know …
Do You Know Your Worth?
All of my dolls were left in the garage of my parents’ house. When, years later, when my husband and I and our three children moved into that house we got those dolls out. They had been in bad weather and were dusty and moldy. So we decided it was best to just get rid of them. Each doll had a name and were special in some way to me. One of my favorites was a walking bride doll. She came in a beautiful dress with a veil and if you held her hand just right, her legs moved in …
Panic or Promise?
One of our sons in law got his first turkey yesterday. It’s not turkey season. But that old bird flew out of nowhere and smack into his windshield. It landed with such force that he almost broke through the windshield. Unexpected. Out of nowhere. Boom! Life is like that. We’re traveling along enjoying life. And suddenly, out of nowhere, something hits us with such a force. We want to dodge, we try to avoid, but life happens and shatters right in front of us. No one is immune from the possibility of it. So what do we do when disaster …