I can't pinpoint a moment when I first started hearing God, but I know even as a young child I already heard Him. It could be that the limits imposed on me by my handicap developed a spiritual sensitivity in me. I remember when I was only six or seven years old my dad asked …
Continue reading Hearing God’s Voice (Part 1 of 7): an introduction
I decided not to do any more major blogging until I get my series on Hearing God finished. It's taking hours of time I don't have while we are trying to remodel and move into our next house. Evenings after the children are in bed or Sunday afternoons are about the only time I can sneak in a …
"Everyone thinks I am weird!" I swept the kitchen floor late that night and cried. The house was silent except for the small sounds of slumbering. I hung up my broom and restlessly moved around the living room, straightening a pillow, putting away a few forgotten pieces of laundry. I switched off the last lamp. The streetlight shone …
This is sort of a hodgepodge letter about family life. Nothing particularly wise or profound, so read on at your own risk. We are working hard at fixing up our house in hopes of moving in a few weeks. This past week we worked on wiring, insulating, and sheet rock. These days have been long …
Know how it is sometimes when you're bustling about your work, distractedly juggling lists in your mind and trying to pull everything together to accomplish a torrent of tasks? Then amid the whirl, something pierces your spirit, and you find yourself absolutely still, pondering... That happened to me this week. We're trying to get ready to …
If someone you love is on the autism spectrum, I highly recommend that you watch the movie Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin is an autistic woman who overcame gigantic difficulties to use her exceptional mind to contribute to the scientific community. The first time I watched the movie, I cried the whole way through (and laughed, too!). Not …
In Mercer Mayor's fun book There's an Alligator Under My Bed, the main character is scared and doesn't want to go to sleep, because he just knows there's an alligator lurking under his bed. He devises an elaborate scheme to escape the alligator and returns to lure it out with food he raids from the fridge. …
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven, says Solomon in Ecclesiastes 3:1. I take that to mean that somewhere in there is a time to read! I honestly don't understand when people say that they enjoy reading, but don't read because they don't have time. For me, it's …
https://flic.kr/p/da62Wk We had in our yard a tree which lived through one season and then died, having no chance to spread its greenery upon the sky; (and its dying is both like and unlike the death of a child. She is an angel, they tell me, and happier now by far. Yes, oh yes, but--) …
About a year ago when Will and I were still driving the 75 miles back to our church in Hutchinson, I would often spend a good part of the drive reading Scripture aloud. Will would listen, and then we would talk about it. That was my favorite part of Sunday in those days--the early morning …
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