Alternate Endings
July 26, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Humorous
And they lived happily ever after.
And they lived semi-happily until they were priced out of the housing market.
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Wrinkled Music
July 14, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
The young man scuffed the toes of his laceless shoes. He stared at the twelve-inch squares of linoleum on the floor of the music department’s practice room.
“Yeah, I’m not what you’d call prepared for today’s lesson.”
THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE
June 16, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Humorous
Our driveway has a drainage problem. It slopes toward the garage, a quirk of the terrain. Rain pools in a mini-lake that in winter freezes into a rink large enough for grandkids to skate on. Sure, we could invest a great deal of money to have the problem corrected, but how many homes can boast their own skating rink? Selling point, right?
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Emergency
June 2, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Worship
I did it again yesterday. I booted up my computer before I did anything else. Before breakfast. Before getting dressed. Before brushing my teeth.
Opening my email inbox came before everything else, including time alone with the Lord.
It’s not that I didn’t want to spend time with Him. It’s that I felt compelled to see if there were any emergencies that needed my attention. Did my kids/mother/friends/church family/ministry/business/volunteer responsibilities need me?
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PEACE AND QUIET
May 25, 2025 by Cynthia Ruchti
Filed under Daily Devotions, Humorous
Running errands with my over-active, over-talkative four-year-old son challenged my reservoir of parenting patience. As we drove the fifteen miles into town and then from bank to post office to grocery store, Luke rehearsed of every thought that had crossed his mind since birth.
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