I watched as the EMTs carried Mom, cradled in her bedsheet, to the waiting ambulance. Though it appeared one of my worst fears, a fall-induced broken hip…

It was difficult enough for me to watch Mom’s physical decline, but a year or so before she died, I started noticing changes in her mental capacity. Her inability to…

Here in NW Georgia, spring is baby bird season – and baby deer, squirrels, and chipmunks. Juvenile squirrels relentlessly try to figure out how to breach…

As I drove, hands clasping the steering wheel, praying we’d find Ray alive, it occurred to me that Chris’s question regarding someone accompanying me already provided a clue to what…

It took several months after my husband’s fatal heart attack before I was ready to hear the specifics of his final hours. But, when I was, one of his closest…

I pinched myself. Sue, pay attention; stay in the moment; live with expectancy. This is real. This is amazing. These God-created creatures are swimming…

God's creativity, His grace offered by His creation, overflowed with gifts from the ocean. Before the tides rolled in in the early mornings, some…

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…