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“Although time seems to fly by, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the...

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”  John Bunyan Imagine the darkness, the...

“Your life is a sacred journey…You are on the path…exactly where you are meant to be right now.” Caroline Adams Miller Before I even knew what was happening, my story began. I entered this world on a cold winter day in Minnesota. Since then, my mom told me that on the day I was born, she looked at me and said, "She looks like a Pam." Suddenly, I had a name. Of course, I have no memory of that. If I wanted to tell you my story, I might start from a different vantage point,

“The longest journey is the twelve inches from your head to your heart.” John Ortberg Have you ever thought about that? If Ortberg is...

"I do not understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott There...

We played a new game this past week. It was a multi-dimensional strategy game - a mind-bender that required us to pay attention and think...

“What makes life good is not a particular set of circumstances but how the heart interacts with them.” Tim Keller Like many families, we...

“Hope is joyous anticipation of good that is not yet here or is unseen.” Dallas Willard “The people walking In darkness have seen a great...

I was greeted by a man in a Santa hat when I went to pick up my car from the shop the other day. It was a damp, dreary, rainy day. His...

“It was in the season of Christmas that I came out of my little garden…and began to walk backwards through history to the place from...

Waiting is something we all have in common. We wait for small things, like the stoplight to change, or big things, like medical test...

The sound of silence is growing at our house as our children are becoming young adults. One of the things I sometimes miss is the sound of their voice - the giggles and squeals of delight when they were little. Come to think of it, there are other voices I miss as well, such as my grandmother, who has gone on to heaven, and a friend who has moved to another part of the country. Sometimes I think of my grandmother and wonder what she would say if we could sit down together for

“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” C.S. Lewis1 Surely one of the marks of greatness is the longevity of one’s influence. Take the...

"To err is human; to forgive, divine." Alexander Pope Are you in tune? I went to a choir concert this past week. In order to be in tune...

It’s time for a well. It’s time for a drink of life-giving water. In the midst of all the things that need to be done, in the midst of...

“For the word of the Lord holds true, and we can trust everything he does. Ps 33:4 I was joking around with someone yesterday. It just so...

Do you know how fast you are going? We drove to Canada last week-end. After a long wait to get across the border we found ourselves on a...

One of the challenges of getting older is not the lines that begin to form on your forehead but lines that underline the names and needs...

“Real love loves us, not just as we are, but so that we can become what we are meant to be…It’s a love that won’t let us go.” Mark...

“When Jesus gave his disciples [the Lord’s] prayer, he was giving them part of his own breath. his own life, his own prayer…his own...