Multitude Mondays
Missing Gifts and a Lesson About Love
I couldn’t get past the missing gifts. I nearly let their absence ruin our time together. As usual, we celebrated Christmas early, just the six of us, and with a couple bad-weather days, a few of the kids’ gifts didn’t arrive on time. To make matters worse, my youngest was the one missing the most. Now…
How To Avoid a Comparison-Christmas
In the sparkle and glitter of the holiday season, it is easy to feel you don’t measure up. Your decorations aren’t the latest and greatest hanging icicles or chasing lights. You don’t have an outdoor nativity or themed Christmas tree ornaments. Your holiday wardrobe consists of a lovely 3-piece outfit left over from your first-ever…
Ask How to Serve Not Why
It’s easy to fall into distrust of our fellow man. Even those of us who live compassionately and generously stoop to cynicism from time to time. Stories about fraud, deceit, and hypocrisy plaster the news. Likely, most of us know someone personally who has lied to get what she/he wanted. Perhaps you have even suffered…
Identity Crisis: I Want To Be Like She Is!
I want to be like she [he] is! How many times have I said that? Okay, how many times have I thought that? Wishing I was that good at writing, that athletic, that pretty, that patient, that smart, that creative, that, that, that…. You name it, I’ve likely wished it. In fact, I just did…
Dump the Holiday Stress (and Get Something More)
Thanksgiving and Christmas bring out the best and worst in people. They remind us of the gifts in our lives and inject a renewed sense of appreciation. They help center us on the Giver of those gifts and increase our attention on the Savior. They encourage generosity in our hearts and in our pocketbooks. …
Three Steps to a Better Day (the A.R.T.)
With freezing fingers and toes and a burning anger, I glared at the little device in my hand. It had failed me again! All sanity quickly fled and I relabeled a good day “bad” in a nanosecond. And this over a relatively simple incident—one that involved an evil (in my opinion) Palm Pilot (PP). We’ve all had those days if…
Why It’s Tempting to Hide (and Why We Don’t Need To)
We are tempted to hide whether we are 16 or 66. Sometimes it just seems prudent to be someone we are not—even as adults—even as Christians. In high school I never quite fit in. I grew up on a farm, so classmates grouped me in the “farmer” category. However, I excelled in academics, so “brain”or “nerd”…
What Are You Willing To Give (Veterans, We Salute You!)
Today is Veteran’s Day. A day we honor our veterans for their “patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.” Yet I know there are some veterans out there who don’t feel like they’ve done enough to receive the respect and honor other vets do. These are veterans who never ended…
When Disappointment Threatens to Crowd Out Joy
A recent event sparked disappointment in a few of us in my family. It wasn’t a tragic event with life-altering consequences, but a time of discouragement and unrest. You know the feeling. A sense of longing for the opposite of what did happen. As I was processing this event, I realized competing camps battled for…
What Are You Missing? (Bringing Sight to the Blind)
Sometimes we’re missing far more than we realize. I remember clearly the day I got glasses. I was in sixth grade, and none of us six kids had trouble seeing, except apparently me. We lived on a hilltop farm, and two hills over sat another farm; Kresses were our nearest neighbors. As I stood in…
Hello, I'm Julie, an imperfect wife and mother of four. Life in this broken world is not always easy. Yet, joy can be found in each day through the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I find it's easy for our day's blessings to get lost in its happenings. But God's "mercies never end" (Lamentations 3:22) and His "grace is sufficient" (2 Corinthians 12:9).
May the posts and pages on this site offer you a measure of peace and encouragement.
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