by Stephanie Reeves | Mar 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
Dear Friends, This month we get to discuss a fun topic: money! Isn’t that one of the topics you’re never supposed to bring up with family? Well, the fact is that Jesus talked about money a lot. So we’re not going to shy away from it! My husband and I had been...
by Melanie Weldon-Soiset | Mar 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
God of Wealth and Release, You have given me everything: the shoes on my feet, the watch on my wrist, the air in my lungs. My very life depends on your abundance. You are Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord Who Provides: you provided the ram for Abraham and Isaac. You gave your...
by Judy Douglass | Mar 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
My grandchildren were coming to visit in a few weeks. I spent two hours choosing some new things for them to play with while they were here. Some friends in New York were doing a creative outreach for women in that amazing city. I gave a little to help to make it...
by Sara Fichtner | Mar 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
I became a fundraiser by accident, at least that’s what I thought for a long time. After graduating with a journalism degree, I applied for a marketing internship at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the largest children’s museum in the world. The internship...
by Lori Closter | Mar 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
Years ago, our teenage daughter came home late one night from an exclusive Boston fashion show she’d been invited to with several friends. “Look what I won in a raffle!” she said, and held out a gorgeous Yves St. Laurent handbag. I turned over the label and saw the...
by Stephanie Reeves | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
Have you ever said to yourself, I thought we’d have more time? If you’ve ever unexpectedly lost someone you loved, you’ve probably thought that. You thought they’d be there longer. You thought you could have one more conversation. Share one more cup of coffee. Laugh...
by Michele Morin | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
“Do you always read to your kids like that?” she queried. My friend was referring to my rendition of a Dr. Seuss classic delivered at tongue-twister speed from a rocking chair in the church nursery: “Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?...
by Lisa Appelo | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
The soft chimes on my phone alarm sounded on the nightstand next to me. I opened my eyes long enough to find the phone, slide the alarm to snooze, and set it back down. For one blissful second, life felt good and normal. But just as quickly, the bleak reality of my...
by Mabel Ninan | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
A few weeks ago, I submitted a devotion to the editor of an anthology. In my submission, I recalled feeling out of place in the U.S. when I first emigrated to the U.S. from India. I shared how the visceral experience of being a foreigner helped me understand my...
by Julia Roller | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
Moms tend to be preoccupied with time. Or more precisely, with time management. The moms in the MOPS group I coordinate ask for a time management speaker every semester, worried by the way the days seem to stretch out forever yet also mysteriously elapse while they’re...
by E.L. Sherene Joseph | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
My older cousin visited us on our recent trip to India. She was thrilled to see our family and wanted to do something nice for us. She tried to take us shopping and buy us some new clothes. Since we were in town for a short break and didn’t need new clothes, I...
by Julie Pray Walton | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
We live on a sand dune high above Lake Michigan. Over time, the landscape changes entirely, eroded and caressed by calm and storm alike. Mostly rugged, sometimes docile, its environment is never static, always blowing, moving, and changing in westerly gales that send...
by Angelle Jones | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
I don’t remember where I first heard this quote from Geoffrey Chaucer, “Time waits for no man,” but I do know it resonates more today than whenever I first heard it. The original quote states that not only does time not wait for anyone, but it also claims, “Time and...
by Heather Caliri | Feb 1, 2023 | Lifestyle
Not long ago, I surveyed my subscribers to my newsletter about creativity. I asked, “What roadblocks keep you from doing the creative things you enjoy?” It wasn’t even a contest. Forty percent of those surveyed said “time.” Which is understandable: there are limited...
