Ever wish you could turn back the pages of time and do things differently? I felt this way the other day as my son Austin and I worked on a project. An old song[ref]Waylon Jennings, “Old Church Hymns and Nursery Rhymes,” MetroLyrics, CBS Interactive Inc., http://www.metrolyrics.com/old-church-hymns-and-nursery-rhymes-lyrics-waylon-jennings.html, accessed Aug. 8, 2018.[/ref] my dad and I love […]
Author: Colleen Swindoll Thompson
Hidden within every challenge
Hidden within every challenge is an incredible opportunity. Some struggles are enormous, but they are allowed for a purpose.
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Turning Disasters into Timeless Memories
They say there are two things we can be certain about in this life: death and taxes. Well, I don’t know who “they” are, but “they” left out a bunch of stuff . . . by a long shot. Last month we spent a weekend away celebrating my son Jon’s 21st birthday. Jon has numerous […]
Healing takes time—necessary time—for us
Healing takes time—necessary time—for us to find that the bigger picture is about our heart, not our circumstances.
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Safety: Can I Count On You?
I first met Lawrence Daly back in 2010. Larry was working with a mutual friend of ours to investigate a sexual assault case. The victim was a child with disabilities. They were working out of an office next to mine, so I occasionally drifted over and asked questions. Okay, maybe it was more like a […]
He is without flaw
He is without flaw, all-powerful, all-knowing, always faithful, always true to His word, and always available, regardless of what we bring to the table.
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Cool Games You Need to Try When Summer Is the Hottest
It’s only a couple weeks until school resumes, which—this far into summer—makes most parents jump for joy. When my kids were little, I don’t think they ever ran out of energy . . . E V E R! As summer approached, I would make little summer to-do notebooks. They were filled with all kinds of […]
He has the right to choose
He has the right to choose what to reveal and what to withhold. We don’t serve a mean God. We do serve a sovereign God who has a plan for our lives.
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Resting or Rushing: Why It’s a Life or Death Matter
It had only been 30 minutes, but I was already as fidgety and skittish as a wet, cold cat. Not long ago, my husband and I went on the Insight for Living Ministries 2018 Alaska Cruise Conference. That sounds lovely until you know I don’t travel well, and leaving my son Jon who has disabilities […]
Happiness does not come from
Happiness does not come from external abundance but from a child-like faith in God, which results in an eternal perspective, strength of character, humility, and purity.
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When You Get Blindsided by “It”
The x-ray displaying the neck and skull on the computer screen was enormous. While waiting in the surgeon’s examination room, I studied the image of the contorted structure. The saying goes, “Someone always has it worse”—well, this someone had it worse: the neck curved in the wrong direction, and a small kink at the base […]
Grief is humbling
Grief is humbling, revealing, and raw. But grief slowly reminds us to walk by faith and cling to something firm . . . God’s truth.
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