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Eighteen Summers: Make the Most of the Time
The heady days of summer slid through my fingers like water through a sieve. Months faded to weeks and weeks to days. Now, the youngest in the nest readies herself for flight as I attempt to recapture time. Those precious occasions when I view life through the eyes of...
How to Exchange the Seed of Ambition for Kingdom Mission (Guest Post-Joanna Eccles)
A seed of ambition recently tried to sprout into a weed that would choke out my witness. I helped my colleague organize my office’s strategic planning conference. During the conference, the big boss kept acknowledging two other coworkers for their efforts. I wasn’t...
When Reaping a Harvest Looks Unpromising
The brown began with just a few leaves at the bottom of the plants. Each day death advanced up the plant, changing verdant life into lifeless dried leaves. A fungus relentlessly attacked our tomato field and plants were dying at a rapid pace. [bctt tweet="How do you...
Seven Ways To Recognize God When Seeds Scatter
Laughing out loud when my husband shared the story, I soon recovered my composure enough to wonder what my neighbor was thinking now. Maintaining a large backyard garden, he plants dozens of seeds each year. Having a small variety of melon and pumpkin seeds left, on...
How to Discover Hope When Seeds of Promises Are Unfulfilled (Guest Post by Hadassah Treu)
Friend, do you wonder how to discover hope when the seeds of promises are unfulfilled? Perhaps you waited many months and years for a specific promise to be fulfilled and now you are weary and discouraged. You doubt God’s Word and His promises and you question...
Where My Hope is Found-A Guest Post by J.D. Wininger
Today’s world is filled with ever-increasing chaos, hatred, violence, confusion, illness, divisiveness, natural disasters, and evil. In this environment, hope can become a scarce commodity in every person’s life. As much as we Christians want to deny it...
Sowing Spiritual Seeds and the Four Soils
I shuffled from the bed to the bathroom sink—my mind already consumed by the demands of a lengthy to-do list. Instead of offering a kind word of encouragement to my husband as he left for work, I grumbled about the early hour and planted a seed of irritation in...
