Getting an Eternal Perspective in the Midst of Loss
Have you ever experienced a time in your life that felt like a tsunami? You’re going along like normal. Living life. You hear something in the distance. You sort of feel it. You look up and you think you see something coming, but you don’t know what it is. As the rumble gets deeper and […]
You’ve got chronic problems. I know you do. You’re a Wemmick, and we’re living in Wemmickville. It comes with the territory. I’m not talking about catastrophic pain like the kind we experience when we lose a loved one or our home burns down or our husband loses his job or a child dives into a […]
Nobody likes to look at suffering. When things are going well and we hear about something so horrific as a family losing two teen aged daughters and a father in a split second through a natural disaster out of the blue, we instinctively look away. We don’t want to think about it. We’re thankful it […]
The following report came to my attention yesterday: On Sunday, April 27th, the Tittle family lost their home in a deadly tornado that hit central Arkansas. Rob (the father) and daughters Tori and Bekah lost their lives. Their home was completely destroyed down to the foundation. Miraculously, Kerry and the other 7 children have survived […]
Sometimes we cry out to God in what seems to be a vacuum. We cry. Then silence. That almost always happens when we cry and walk away. It’s like a one sided conversation, but mainly because we didn’t stick around to hear a response. Sometimes we cry out to God and are blown away with […]
I’ve loved Elisabeth Elliot since high school. I haven’t read all of her books, but I’ve read several over the years, and they always put much needed fat on skinny bones. Right now I’m in the middle of The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way through the Wilderness to God. Here is the full quote […]
My 20-month-old is obsessed with ceilings right now. He’s all, “See?! See?!” while pointing to the ceiling. He looks at it in awe. He wants us to lift him up as high as we can so he can feel the thrill of being near the ceiling. This morning I tried to interest him in the […]
Living in Minnesota, I don’t see mountains a whole lot. I remember the first time I rode into Colorado on a bus with my high school choir as a teenager and saw the mountain line in the distance. Even from far away they appeared overwhelmingly powerful and mysterious. As we drew near, I actually felt […]
My favorite Christian artist in my 20s was Steven Curtis Chapman, hands down. I still remember driving almost an hour to get to my teaching job – singing “Love You with My Life” at the top of my lungs. Then, the year I got married, belting out, “This is the Great Adventure” as I drove […]
You’ve seen it. The arched back. The clenched fists. The scrunched up face. The flailing feet. The hideous shrieks of indignation. And all you wanted to do was put their shoes on so they could do what they wanted to do: go outside and play. They thought you wanted to torture them, because, you know, […]
