Lord the Light of Your Love is Shining

Have you ever heard someone say that God can’t be a loving God because He lets bad things happen?  How about that the Bible is full of contradictions so it just cannot be true?  Or perhaps, “He just doesn’t care about me.” Last night, we were at a small group study and one of the…

We have reached the end of another ‘school’ year and the highlight of the spring (other than sunshine) is homeschool conferences! I ususally don’t have the opportunity to hear very much of the speaker but this year I got to two workshops.  Very exciting!  What I do get – every conference – is tremendous blessing…

My baby is 17 today!  I can hardly believe that my first born is now an ‘almost adult’.  It seems as though in the beginning I thought this time would never come and now I’m wondering how on earth it happened so quickly. Seventeen years of laughter, tears, lessons, successes, failures and memories. The other…

Matthew 14:6-12 On Herod’s birthday the daughter of Herodias danced for them and pleased Herod so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.” The king was distressed, but because of his…

Tweet tweet, chirp, trilllll…. Each morning for the last few weeks this is what I have woken up hearing.  Rain or shine the birds in the trees behind my house are celebrating each new day. So, do I? Every single day I hear those birds.  Every day do I sing out?  Do I proclaim the…

Hours of effort and energy poured into making the most special of birthday cakes.  Cramped fingers and sugar overload represented the total accomplishment of my day. Finally, after pain-staking meticulation, the goal was achieved the carousel cake was complete.  The young girl’s face glowed.  The investment was worth every minute. As I continued to labour…