My best and warmest thoughts to you. Alistair Begg, a Bible-teaching minister, grew up in Great Britain and now lives in America. Maybe...

Here is a girl who presses upward to the sky while climbing a tree to hang shiny ornaments. I watch through the window. She came to our...

Dear Friends, I am listening to Christmas music. Why? To get myself more and more awake to the true meaning of Christmas. Maybe I’m...

God is in front of us like a boulder in the middle of the highway. Do I usually see and recognize His plan? No, I do not. My husband and...

Have you noticed that sunsets never last long enough? The sun sighs, changes, fades, then it’s gone. It’s December 5th. I’m headed out...

Some of us do this thing when life is hard and there’s nothing we can do about it. For whatever it’s worth, I, Pat Durmon and retired...

Mid-week. I head down an aisle in Walmart. There, I see what looks like R2-D2. You remember him from Star Wars, right? He’s the short,...

According to the weatherman, it’s not winter yet. But here I am with a blanket and huddled next to the fire, watching dried cottonwood...

We’d come from the doctor’s office. Guess we were hungry. Or was it the coziness of the café we needed? The body knows about pain. It has...

My October was filled with dreams, leaves, critiques, a presentation, visit with a sister, maples, a retreat, and gathering books for a...