Today

By Rachael Sales   

I took the time today to play with my one year old daughter instead of rushing her through bath time and whisking her off to bed.  I took the time today to laugh and play with her instead of giving my usual speech of not getting the floor wet or soaking her sisters’ hair.  I took the time today to listen to my three year old when she said, “I wanna come with you mommy”.  I took her with me and we had a blast just laughing together and eating Doritos.  At the end of today, I got frustrated with the demands of motherhood. After giving my all to them, they still wanted more and I bought into the lie that it required too much.
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Commit and Go

By Suzann Maree  

Often the most life-changing revelation dawns on you in a moment that is so startlingly ordinary that you can almost miss it.  The reality is that God doesn’t stop talking to us just because our quiet time is over, that is if we don’t stop listening. 
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Birthday Wishes

By John T. McNeal  

“Happy Birthday to You” has been recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most popular song sung in the English language. For the most part, birthdays are seldom looked forward to after somewhere around the ripe old age of twenty-five.
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Where is the control?

By Lisa Buffaloe  

“Some of you say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year, do business, and make money.’ But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away. So you should say, ‘If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that’” (James 4:13-15 NCV).

In healthier days I felt anything could be accomplished. I would throw a quick prayer over my shoulder and jump in with both feet. My poor husband never knew what I would try when he left for work. When we lived in Illinois, our house had a tiny back stoop made of concrete—no deck or patio. I decided I could make a patio. Books were read, notes made, materials purchased, plans made, and a tiller rented. A male neighbor provided the manpower to wrestle the industrial sized machine out of the van and around to the back yard.

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Excuse me God, can we talk?

By Lisa Buffaloe   

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God” (Philippians 4:6 NIV).

When Chipper was a puppy, he escaped whenever we opened our front door. He thoroughly enjoyed the chase as his family screamed like wild people for him to stop. One getaway occurred when my husband and I were in need of surgeries, and our son had asthma. The puppy was the only healthy one in the bunch.
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