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During a women’s national downhill skiing competition – there was problems. With the mountain dangerously icy, the well-built grades became launching pads flinging racers 60 meters through the air. For the ladies who revisited these mountains, there should be medals from bravery. Whatever your challenges today, keep going. You can make it.
Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor abandon you. (Deuteronomy 31:8, NLT)
Dear Mom, Imagine the shepherd’s surprise on the night of Jesus’ birth. They were simply watching their sheep, like all the other nights, when suddenly everything changed. Kind of like a mother – doing ordinary things on an ordinary day…when, out-of-the-night-sky an angel started speaking, hosts of angels began singing, the “ordinary” became “extraordinary.” Do […]
I love Mary and one day I will meet her. Right now she is with Jesus, her earthly Son – the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world – what a story. Mary’s resolved willingness to obey the angel’s announcement in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 2 is so admirable. I enjoy […]
Dear Mom, When the angel Gabriel came to the elderly priest Zechariah saying that his prayer had been heard, he was puzzled. Having long since given up praying for a son, he had moved on. Sweet Mom, have you given up on a long-awaited prayer request? What’s amazing about this story is: when you make […]
Dear Mom, If you are completely burnt out – often up until the wee hours of the morning trying to accomplish all your tasks, I pray that God renews your strength today. The Bible says when we are weak and completely spent, He is so incredibly strong. In a sense, we absorb the strength of […]
Dear Mom, During this fall season, once again, the climate shifts and I am reminded that nothing on earth stays the same. I never liked much change as a young mom; I found it too disruptive in my family’s routine, however, change is like an avalanche – impossible to hold back. I’ve learned, despite what […]