Devotionals
Devotionals
Establishing daily devotionals is a key to growing closer to God and experiencing more victory and peace in your life! Take a few minutes each day to be alone with God and prayerfully read one of these daily "devos".
Anxiety Stressors
“Click, click, click.” His toenails brushed across the linoleum, followed by a whine and snort, then a pounce onto the bed. The process continued for four hours.
Twix, our five-year-old Chihuahua, was restless. He normally sleeps soundly, but this particular...
Living With Regret
I stare out the window on a warm March afternoon of the winter that wasn’t in the southern United States. My garden plot stares back, “Are you going to prepare me?”
I’ve made plans for the initial plowing but wonder… Can I plant it? I...
Love And Fear
Love and fear. Is it possible for both emotions to inhabit healthy relationships?
I loved my parents but also feared them. I loved them because they brought me into the world and cared for my needs. They fed me when I was hungry, changed my diapers when they were...
Stinky Days
Carol King sang “I feel the earth move under my feet” in her 1971 hit “I Feel the Earth Move,” but I actually experienced it.
Shortly after moving to an old home, my wife and I explored the overgrown backyard, contemplating how to restore its...
Intersection Crashes
People die or incur serious injuries at them, leading authorities to put up warning signs or traffic signals.
I cringe when approaching intersections. Though I have only had one wreck at an intersection, I’ve observed others. I watched a tee boned car explode when...
Running From God
My daughter ran for about six years and developed exercise induced asthma. I did it for one and acquired shin splints and bad knees. We even ran some 5Ks together, but she finished and was rested long before I glimpsed the finish lines. She was good enough to compete; I just did it for better...
Living A Legacy
Somewhere around the mid 1700’s, Christopher Wiles was born. In our Wiles’ family history book, he was the oldest ancestor traceable without help from a professional genealogist. Because he was born and later married, I’m alive. Sure my parents contributed, but Dad descended...
Bragging Rights
She was doing it again. I was proud but also a little embarrassed.
Mom was “hawking.” “My oldest son has published three books.” “He writes for…” and follows with a list of magazines, newspapers, blogs, periodicals and websites...
It Doesn’t Fit
It doesn’t fit. If I’ve heard it once I have a thousand times.
My wife says she’s built funny-at least from the waist down. Actually it’s not her build; it’s her legs. They’re vertically challenged, making it difficult for her to find...
Glorifying God
Peck, peck, peck. I always hear them before I see them.
Several varieties of woodpeckers inhabit our region. Their hammering on trees, light poles, church steeples and gutters is unmistakable. Clinging to the side of trees with arthritic shaped claws, they do what would...
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