There is a place I used to call my second home: the waiting room. I’ll never forget the hours I spent with my special-needs son in waiting rooms—rooms with tattered magazines, crying children, and tired-looking people who were staring at smudged, blandly painted walls. If there were windows, I watched the outside world whirl by—beautiful […]
Author: Colleen Swindoll Thompson
The choice offered to every person
The choice—offered to every person—is to believe God and actively participate in whatever He allows, regardless of what we feel, experience, lose, gain, or see in our human, day-to-day lives.
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Does Anyone See Me?
Jesus Understands
So, there we were—my mother, my sister, my three children, and I—walking through the airport to get to the gate for our flight home. There should be awards for mothers who travel with teenagers—the heaps of luggage . . . The stops for sodas and snacks . . . the children deaf to anything other […]
Significant transformations occur in our lives
Significant transformations occur in our lives when we feel invisible or in pain or when God seems hidden.
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Beauty Unimagined: Mending and Marriage
I nearly incinerated my finger with a hot glue gun a while back. I was working on a project for my daughter’s wedding and almost welded my finger to the table. While I soaked one hand in ice, with the other I dusted off the pages of her baby books and began thumbing through them. […]
Christ promises His strength, His comfort
Christ promises His strength, His comfort, His power, and His wisdom for all who believe and trust in Him.
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What Does “Trusting God” Mean?
Trust is not one of my strong suits. I could try to blame my struggle on not knowing enough trustworthy people, but I know the problem is rooted in me . . . in my desire to protect myself and in my fear of getting hurt or let down. I know that not trusting others […]
difficulties are actually for our good
Difficulties are actually for our good, but we get so angry over hardships, hurts, sorrows, grief, lost dreams, past betrayals, sick children, or chronic pain that we are blinded to the good work God is doing.
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Captive Audience
If you could travel anywhere in the world, with anyone you love, without any financial worry, where would you go? Perhaps a cozy cabin in Canada’s Banff National Park or a reprieve in one of England’s rustic cottages? Or imagine roving around Rome’s ancient ruins, adventuring on an African safari, or traveling through Brazil’s rainforests […]
Desert experiences reveal our
Desert experiences reveal our true character and give us the choice, either to depend on God to transform us or to reject Him and run.
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God created us to be in relationship
God created us to be in relationship with Him and one another regardless of one’s abilities or challenges.
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Living Well
An Interview with Michael Hyatt
Life is so . . . daily. Just as one problem is solved, another one surfaces. We clock in and clock out of work, and eventually life itself becomes robotic and routine. It doesn’t take long for our dreams to diminish into a cloud of dust, leaving us to wonder Is this all there is? […]
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