Flying high over this gentler swath of Alaska wilderness in our Beaver float plane, the beauty kept us wide-eyed and snapping pictures. A highlight…

Flying high over this gentler swath of Alaska wilderness in our Beaver float plane, the beauty kept us wide-eyed and snapping pictures. A highlight…

Living Nativity scenes, so popular during Advent, communicate worship to me. Often the face of the young girl acting as Mary oozes expectancy. She seems to know…

I understand release and embrace, but expectations and expectancy? How are they different? What was God saying? I went with it – whatever…

In this hurry up, fast-paced world, where we cling to expectations, we often miss out on the countless treasures surrounding us, designed…

One of the most enlightening and freeing times in my personal spiritual journey was when I began discovering the gift of God’s grace. I knew that God had…

Oftentimes when we are experiencing painful affliction it can seem as though we are sinking deeper and deeper into the muck and mire…

I don’t know about you but this has been a constant struggle on my journey. What is that struggle? That struggle has been a constant repeat…

During my season of brokenness, I can’t tell you the number of times that I begged for God to remove my weakness. I remember crying out in my prayers to…

Each time I have hit bottom – I am left feeling broken and weak. What is even more painful for me is that I have no one to blame but myself for my present…

The topic of conversation was laughter, but you never would have guessed it from our friend Don’s expression. A successful businessman…

In her book, A Joy I’d Never Known, Jan Dravecky shares “...valuable lessons I could not have learned by staying on the high road where the sun shines.” I’m grateful Jan joins us for a second week…

One precious treasure I uncovered was learning not to expect perfection in relationships. No matter how much we long and strive for perfection…

We don’t normally expect to find treasures in the darkness of adversity or riches in the valley of suffering but God gives us rich rewards…

It is not good for anyone to do life alone, but there was a time in my life when I thought I didn’t really need relationships. Sure I appreciated my family…

I learned that I am loved regardless of my imperfections! This unconditional love was so important for me to know because I have so many…

I asked God to show me. Show me the masks I have worn. Show me why I began to wear them in the first place. Show me the evolution of my imposter. I asked God – as King David did…

I have struggled off and on with depression all of my adult life. For years now I have pleaded with God to remove this “thorn in my flesh.” After years…

Long term illness has more than one victim. Naturally, the priority of energy and time must be the person who is ill. But what about the rest of the family…

Doublets was created by math professor, Charles L. Dodgson, (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland) in the late 1870s. The object of the game…