Everyone eventually comes to a pivotal point in their life. I grew up on a small farm in the Midwest. My father had grown up Catholic but my mother was raised Evangelical Protestant and refused to convert to Catholicism or raise her children in the Catholic Church. Surprisingly, when my …
Through the years God has been a continuous source of guidance, provision and protection. For example, when I was in high school one of the big decisions was where to go to college. I was choosing between three science and engineering schools: MIT, Cal Tech, and Harvey Mudd. Each one had its own …
I grew up in Oregon, but after finding the love of my life, I married a Texan. After living in his hometown of Amarillo for nearly 20 years, my desire to move closer to my parents grew. My father was in poor health with congestive heart failure and I began …
I talk to God like my dad. I tell him what I am worried about, what excites me, what I am thankful for. I remember when I was tired of being alone and feeling like my life was in a rut. I told God all I wanted was a date …
In December 2019 my dad passed away and I was heartbroken. I hadn’t realized before that I was a “Daddy’s Girl” and I felt the loss deeply. Within a couple weeks everything seemed to go awry. We ran out of gas on I5 (the new/old truck had a broken gas …
The Bible is full of stories of how God dealt with men and women in ancient times. We can learn a lot from their experiences with an infinite personal being. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the …
A few months ago, I moved to a new country with my husband and young son. We lived in a borrowed home for a couple months while looking for a long-term place to rent, and we were overjoyed when a beautiful home became available at the beginning of November. I …
Her ankle was broken, and it was all my fault. I was a camp counselor near Crater Lake, Oregon. We had gone for a hike in the woods. We didn’t go near the Rogue river, it was too dangerous. Instead we hiked to the Mammoth Sugar Pine. It had been …
Now that I am older, I look back on my life with more of a reflexive or philosophical point of view. We can’t go back and make changes, but I really, really, really wish that I had become a Jesus follower very early on. They were wasted years when I …
It all started on January 31, 2006, that day God found me and grabbed me, He pulled me out of the not-quite-right life I had lived in until then. My marriage was in crisis. After 10 years of acquaintance, 4 years of marriage, my husband announced that he wanted to …
