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Published Oct 15, 2024

By Gaye Lindfors I was walking past the graham crackers in the grocery store when the elderly woman in the blue wool coat pushing a grocery cart rushed up to me. “Where are the paper towels?” Her sense of urgency really caught my attention. It came through her voice and her eyes. Panic. Anxiety. Lots […]

Published Aug 20, 2024

By Tammy Borden The neighbors must have wondered why a stranger in her Sunday best was picking through the rubble where a barn once stood. Weeds and tree saplings had grown where stanchions once held holsteins, and granite field stones were scattered where they had broken free from the mortar and tumbled from the collapsing […]

Published Aug 13, 2024

By Tammy Borden This house…. This house is in the small village of Ampleben, Niedersachsen, Germany. It’s where my mom (Waltraud) lived as a teenager during World War II. Held inside its walls were some of her most heartbreaking secrets and sorrows. Nearly a decade ago, my mom and I walked the cobblestone street in […]

Published Jul 16, 2024

Today I choose life. Have you ever had a phrase – words of encouragement from a friend, words from a book, or words that God places on your heart – and you just know that you need to pay attention to them? You can almost feel the message behind the words? That’s how those words felt this […]

Published Jul 9, 2024

You give and take away You give and take away My heart will choose to say Lord, blessed be Your name   I’ve sung the lyrics to Blessed Be Your Name so many times since it hit the worship song scene…released back in 2002, friends! Time flies when you’re worshipping the Lord.    I think […]