If you are working through the 2023 Proverbs Reading Challenge, you are on Proverbs 18 today. If you haven’t yet started, or if things have prevented you from reading each day, please don’t worry. You can start anytime, and if you miss some days, it’s ok. Remember that this is a very generous reading challenge... Read More
The power of prayer . . . and paraphrase: paraphrasing the psalms in daily prayer
Sometimes, I really struggle with prayer. I am certain that it is powerful, that it is vital, and that God wants it, but when I actually sit down to pray, my mind sometimes goes blank. In the past, I had struggled with severe fatigue that made it nearly impossible to stay awake when I prayed,... Read More
What is the best book to help me through the grieving process?
Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love: Daily Meditations to Help You through the Grieving Process is an essential guide for the grieving process. The authors’ stated purpose is to help people “to the other side of grief,” and through 70 different short meditations on the grieving process, they do just that. These meditations provide... Read More
Her children rise up and call her blessed
Today, I sit with Deborah Talbert, wife of Pastor Bud Talbert in Edmonton, Alberta, and mother of five wonderful children. One of those children is my husband, Dave. I am eternally grateful to this woman for the way that she raised her son to become a wise and faithful husband and a kind and wonderful... Read More
What book can help me when I feel broken and at my end?
Book Recommendation: Brokenness The Bible has what may be some surprising things to say about a broken and desperate heart: Is 57:15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of... Read More
What does Proverbs 1 teach us about wisdom?
Are you planning on joining me and others in the 2023 Proverbs Reading Challenge? We aspire to read a chapter of Proverbs each day this year! This will have specific benefits that I mentioned in a previous article. Today, read Proverbs chapter 1, which provides a special kind of introduction to this book of wisdom.... Read More
2023 Resolution: Get wisdom
As I drove the last few hours of highway from Nashville to Chicago on the evening of December 30, my husband and I stared at the dark road ahead of us and discussed the upcoming year. We talked about our resolutions—ways that we wanted to change direction and live better in the future. I love... Read More
How to make an adorable Proverbs 3 necklace
If you love books, journals, and journaling, this necklace is for you! This goes well with the 2023 Proverbs Reading Challenge as well! Make a small journal necklace that will always remind you of the important truths of Proverbs 3: Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of... Read More
What book can show me how to pursue true friendship?
True Friendship: Walking Shoulder to Shoulder by Vaughan Roberts is a book that explains what real friendship is and how to pursue it. Each chapter describes a different aspect of friendship: how it is crucial, close, constant, candid, careful, and Christ-centered. He writes because true friendship is a crucial part of life, and the consequences... Read More
Bible verses for when you feel lonely
What does the Bible say about friendship & loneliness? We have all faced times of loneliness, possibly extreme loneliness, and possibly extended periods of loneliness. These can cause us to be introspective, asking what is wrong with us, or why this is happening. However, one of the things God wants us to do during these... Read More