“If the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all His wonders?…The Lord has abandoned us.” -Judges 6:13 There was a time when the Israelites were so oppressed, they were hiding in caves just to make some grain. This is where we find Gideon; hiding, just trying to survive and make a little food for his family. An angel…
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Right now, a group from our church is visiting Israel, and as a result I’m supremely jealous and living vicariously through all their photos! While there, they visited the Wailing Wall – if you aren’t familiar with this, one of the ‘traditions’ is to write your prayer requests on a small piece of paper and leave it in between the crevices of the wall…
Often, people tell me how impressed they are that I can be so positive during this challenging season. That I can have so much joy and hope and a smile on my face. They tell me how great it is to see my perspective and how they are inspired by it. I suppose it’s taken about as much effort to stay mentally healthy as it has to stay…
I play Jedi mind tricks on myself. Ok I don’t know if they are Jedi mind tricks per se, mostly because, much to my husband’s horror, I haven’t actually seen Return of the Jedi. But he’ll be proud I knew the term and threw a Star Wars reference in here, nonetheless. But I digress. Here’s what I mean. When we…
I didn’t realize it, but in the last week or so, we’ve entered into a new season. We transitioned from the “surgery recovery” season and started moving into the “prepare for chemo” season. We’ve had such a barrage of appointments, tests, phone calls, etc that we quietly moved into a survival mode that feels like the beginning again, when we…
