help and hope for living on purpose for the sake of Jesus
There’s a lot of bone-cold weariness circling round all sorts of people—poor people, rich people, old people, young people. I’ve talked to people from as different walks of life and as different political opinions as you can imagine, yet perhaps without realizing it, they – we – all need the very same thing—HOPE. I find …
As I listened to the lilt in her voice when she read Mrs. Frisby’s part in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and then to the deepening of her speech when it was time to read the lines of the bossy rat Brutus, I smiled to myself because my daughter not only “got it” …
My friend Tammy often reminds me that the things that bother us the most in other people are usually our own sin problems staring us back in the face. “The conceited way that person talks to me drives me over the edge . . . The way ‘those people’ have to have everything ‘their way’ …
We had a “prayer brunch” for the women at our church on Saturday. “Prayer brunch” might lead one to think, “Women in their pretty dresses, bringing in warm breakfast casseroles, a lot of talking and maybe a little bit of prayer.” Other than the “warm breakfast casseroles” part, the other couldn’t be farther from the …
I swept the Christmas cookies, candy wrappers, and crumbs from the classroom floor after the party as this fleeting thought swept through my mind, “Of my twenty-seven students, only a few of them said, ‘thank you,’ for the Christmas pencils, erasers, and stamps I gave them.” That thought was quickly replaced with, “Well, I guess …
As my beautiful friend sat across my dining room table from me, the words eventually tumbled out: “I have never been ‘enough’ for my parents. Not good enough. Not hard-working enough. Not successful enough. Not wise enough. I was good. The things I did were good—just not good enough.” What I saw was quite the …