Peace family, I recently got to experience the rising of the sun for the very first time. As long as I have lived, I have never gotten to just watch the horizon until it rose; I have either been busy with school or work, or been asleep! Fortunately, though, in the midst of the morning […]

Peace family, we’ve reached the end of January! How are things going with your resolutions? One of Brian’s favorite quotes is, “A goal without a plan is only a wish,” which ought to encourage us to make a specific plan in order to help achieve our goal. We might say, “I want to lose weight,” […]

Peace family, are you taking the time to really listen to and get to know your elders? We are usually a lot more aware of the loss of precious moments with children as they grow up, but we can miss out of moments with our elders, too! My grandmother got sick in December, and she […]

Peace family, did you know that house plants need one another? It sounds funny, but it’s true. Last week, I bought an orchid that had root damage from being over-watered. Very carefully, I repotted it in some new, better soil, and am misting it with water every day or so. I’ve moved it to a […]

  Peace Family I struggle with forgiveness from time to time. I found this article written by Cindi McMenamin and I hope it helps you and touches your heart. May it bring you peace in your circumstances. There’s a reason you and I struggle with forgiveness. But I don’t think it’s because of how deeply […]

Peace family, what are the songs that have really brought you closer to God in meaningful ways? Today, I had a listener call in to request “Jesus Freak” by dcTalk. It’s an old song, but it makes me smile every time I hear it, because I remember how God used dcTalk to draw me closer to himself when […]

Peace family, today, I want to share something that I’ve been chewing over in my life, which I hope will encourage you. As I thought about goals for the new year, one of them was to stop worrying so much. Related to that, I was thinking about how many years I have spent wondering and […]

Peace family, when was the last time that you expressed God’s love to the world through blessing a stranger? I am not sure why it has been happening, but for some reason the last two or three weeks, God has been showing his love to me a lot through strangers. I have had an Amazon […]

Peace family, is there some difficult or pesky task that you’ve been putting off? I’ve found that it’s a lot harder to notice when I’m procrastinating as an adult than it was when I was a child. With homework and clear deadlines, there was an obvious way to grade myself on what I was accomplishing […]

Peace family, how are you changing the world around you at work? Yesterday, I was thinking about how we often prefer to keep our work and spiritual lives separate. To be fair, it’s vulnerable to expose who we are and our deepest beliefs. I’m not saying to be aggressive with people- the Bible says we should […]

Peace family, today I just want to focus on the mercies of God, how he brings good things into our lives, even when we don’t deserve them! I was given some hyacinths last year, and after they finished blooming, I didn’t take particularly good care of them. Actually, I took pretty bad care of them, […]

Peace family, as 2015 draws to a close, we stand on the threshold of something wonderful and exciting: a fresh, new year! If you’re anything like me, this year was a mix of good and bad things in your personal life, while events in America and on the worldwide stage often could be overwhelming. Decisions were made by leaders […]

  Peace family, this year, I’ve made most of my gifts to others out of wood. I made Advent wreaths, and it has been a painstaking, dirty, sometimes sweaty process, but it’s also been an intimate one. The work takes time and labor. You breathe in a lot of piney saw dust, you put in a lot of effort […]