Trust Your Unknown Future to A Known God
Trust your unknown Future to a known God? Take on the New Year with the confidence that your slate from the past year is wiped clean and God will bless you with His perfect plans for your future.
Inspirational
Inspirational Essays celebrate the spiritual side of life. Here you’ll find stories sharing about God’s presence in our lives and retelling inspiring stories we’ve heard.
Life can be a roller coaster of ups and downs, of hard times and good times. We share a little of everything in this category. Times when we felt victorious and times when we felt not so much.
So often hearing a sermon will inspire us with words we want to pass on to others. We don’t feel that we have answers; just a lot of questions and situations that somehow, sometimes, God has shared a solution for us.
We give Him the glory for all the good in our lives, and there is so much. And we hope to see you all in Heaven someday!
Let The Pain Go, And Emotions Too Heavy To Carry
Let The Pain Go, and emotions too heavy to carry. Putting down your load may not change the situation, but it will change you. A college professor stood before his class holding a glass of water. “How heavy is this glass?” he asked his students. “8 ounces.” “12 ounces.” “16 ounces.” The guesses came…
What Is Godly Vulnerability?
What is Godly Vulnerability? It is strength and courage, the opposite of weakness. Acting honestly invites deeper connections with others. I listened to a book this week in which a husband “outed” his wife’s lies about her Instagram life. He hacked her social media and told the world she wasn’t who she said she…
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear | A Ghost Story With a Gospel Message
The perfect love of Jesus casts out fear. A true story of how Love and kindness calmed the restless spirit of the ghost of a young boy. In our home, Halloween looks a little different. While orange lights twinkle in neighbor’s windows and excited trick-or-treaters roam the streets, our lights shine for a different celebration….
Are You An Avid or Sacrificial Bible Reader?
Are you an Avid or Sacrificial Bible Reader? Is Bible reading a divine joy or a conciliatory slot in your day planner? Here’s some ideas to get rewarding daily study time. Are You an Avid or Sacrificial Bible Reader? This is the topic of an article in a Christian periodical we get…
Why You Need a Personal Mission Statement
A personal mission statement can act as a filter, helping to sift through the noise and focus on what aligns with our core values and beliefs
Christian Empathy: Unlock The Door To Compassion
Christian Empathy is the key that will unlock the door to kindness and compassion. Don’t miss opportunities to relieve pain in someone’s life. Our friend, Becky Koehn, kindly shared this inspirational essay with us. Becky specializes in kindness: she is an AirBnb hostess with the most-est. Christian Empathy: Unlock the Door…
Seller of Purple: A Biblical Study of Wild Generosity
Today’s Friday of Preparation focuses on Lydia, a Seller of Purple: A mini Biblical study of selfless hospitality and wild generosity. One sleepover weekend, the glittles dug through my fabric stash and some glittery knits I bought to make tablecloths caught their eyes. They draped themselves like mermaids, with a wrap here, and a…
Why Did I Poke That Dog: How To Keep My Soul Pure
Life invites me to test the forbidden, to poke that dog I should leave alone. Yet The Heavenly Doctor stands ready with an invisible army to fight invisible enemies and keep my soul pure. My Little-Farm-by-the-River Son shared his thoughts with me about this subject. I asked him if I could share with you,…
My Mother’s Spiritual Heritage: Like Acres of Diamonds From 57 Cents
My Mother’s Spiritual Heritage is like Acres of Diamonds from 57 cents. Long ago a little girl wanted to go to Sunday School. Today, over 200 descendants follow the Spiritual Heritage she inspired. Our world is filled with Phenomenal Women. Women who impacted our personal lives, women we read about in the news, and…
Don’t Get Into Mischief: Lessons From Mr. McGregor’s Garden
Don’t get into mischief! There are many lessons to learn from Mr. McGregor’s garden and Peter Rabbit’s misadventures there in just one short day. Need we mention consequences? I had forgotten the exquisite writing of Beatrix Potter; she entertains her audience (children) excellently while imparting subliminal lessons to the adults reading the stories aloud. Although…
When The World Feels Overwhelming
What do you do when the world feels overwhelming? When bad news crushes your spirit and you almost forget a loving God truly is in control. That’s when we need the good news stories. About the real things that keep this world turning in spite of everything. And that’s why I thought of my little prayer bear…