Childlike Faith Have you noticed that often the biggest answers to prayer are gifted to children? Our oldest daughter was nearly nine years of age. She and I took one of those precious Mommy and daughter days. We were headed to “town” with our box-van to pick up a load of plywood for our cabinet …
Angels On Duty Several years ago we packed our cabinet shop equipment and a few personal belongings in our work truck and headed for the US border. Up until this point I had lived nearly my entire life in a small town in northern British Columbia, Canada. This had been my world and the only …
Worry Praying or Trust? Have you ever worried prayed? You know you are to take it to God, but you stay up all night “worry praying.” I’m not saying there isn’t a time to pray through the night, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about when you are overcome with worry. You pray …
Time For The Wedding There is a song we used to sing as children, that was based on Jesus’ parable of the wedding feast (Luke 14). Many of you may have sung it. “I cannot come to the banquet, don’t trouble me now.I have married a wife; I have bought me a cow.I have fields …
Laundry And Learning To Trust It was the middle of winter. We had been praying for another job for our cabinet shop, when we got a phone call for a measurement about an hour and forty minutes away. Taking nearly the last of what money we had, we filled our van with gas, and thanked …
A Willing Donkey Have you ever come to a situation where you knew the answer to someones question, but you felt inadequate… you just didn’t think that you could find the right words? You may have felt guilty that you didn’t try to share or you comforted yourself with the thought that God would send …
At The Last Minute Back when our children were still in diapers the main industry in our tiny town crashed causing a documented ninety-five percent unemployment! The entire region was suffering. Our sole income came from our cabinet shop. We were out of money and no way to pay our upcoming mortgage payment. We prayed …
Angels In The Mail Room Technically I was born with both Canadian and U.S. Citizenship however my U.S. Citizenship wasn’t declared at birth. After a long series of events where God miraculously told us to sell everything but my husbands shop equipment and move to the United States, we had to hire a lawyer to …
God In The Midst of The “Fire” Twenty years ago to the day our lives were shaken, our faith stretched yet our confidence in God grew. The phone rang, it was my husband Troy. His voice was distant and urgent! He had run his hand through the table saw and needed help! I was bathing …
A Childhood Prayer He had pure white hair and was a deacon at our church. I was a young child. I don’t recall ever talking to him, I just know one day I noticed his absence…he never returned. As a small child I was taught to pray for others. I still remember the list of …