At the Proper Time, God Opens His Hand

Reading through Psalm 145 this morning, I camped out a while at verses 15 and 16.  ‘The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time.  You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.”
How many times have I thought that God’s timing was a [...]

A Week Without Water

I’ve had the prettiest plants on my back porch all summer long - two beautiful white New Guineas. The foliage is crisp and green and the white flowers are prolific and gorgeous. They looked especially pretty sitting in a metal type basket that I spray painted green. From the very beginning, they seemed to [...]

Flight MTS27 Ready for Takeoff…Hello?

I welcome a guest blogger today -  my son, Toby.  From a parent’s perspective, this devo is really heartwrenching, but I’m so very thankful that Toby has such a firm grip on God.  I doubt that he’s the only twenty-something who’s going through this.  Read and be encouraged!

“Control, this is flight MTS27 ready for take [...]

Lessons Learned from Hannah

In reading over Hannah’s story in 1 Samuel 1, several things caught my eye this morning.  To re-cap her story, Hannah was one of two wives of Elkanah.  Elkanah’s other wife was named Peninnah.  Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.  Peninnah purposely provoked Hannah because she had no children, which irritated Hannah to the [...]