Oops!

Have you ever pruned plants, built a shelf, put parts on a car, and “Oops”? That wasn’t the branch you wanted to trim, the shelf isn’t level, or there’s a leftover bolt on the ground. Oops: a word we never want to hear God say. And He doesn’t!  He doesn’t make a...

PSALM 42

Watching someone in complete despair, listening to them share their unrest, fears, cries of woe and anguish, and not be able to do anything but hold them, is one of the hardest things to deal with – at least for me. In Psalm 42, the Psalmist is writing during a time...

Recipe for Disaster

I expect many of us have been there at one time: we’re following a new recipe, or a manual for putting together a piece of furniture. We get to the end and realize we missed reading something in the instructions and suddenly our final product is not what it should be....

TOOL SHED

These days being together has its challenges.  But let us not give up meeting together! (Hebrews 10:23-25) God has given us a great tool shed, with plenty of tools for building up and encouraging one another: skype, zoom, facetime, greeting cards, phones, etc. ...

UNCOMFORTABLE

Do you find the cold invigorating? Do you find it irritating or annoying? Or maybe both, depending on the circumstances. How easy it can be to wake up to a cold morning and start complaining because it makes us feel uncomfortable. But uncomfortable can be a good...