Devotionals

It wasn’t about the sandwich. That may have been where the conversation started…but it wasn’t the real issue. For months I had been hearing about a kid who sits at my son’s lunch table. This particular student doesn’t always have a lunch. Sometimes, he looks around the table and asks the other boys if they

‘Tis the season for love. Valentine’s Day will be here soon. The day of the year filled with chocolates, flowers, cards.  I have spent a few days reflecting on love- not necessarily in preparation for Valentine’s Day- more so as a way to sharpen myself. God’s love towards Adam.  When God came to commune with Adam

I was having one of those mornings. So after dropping the kids off to school, I went upstairs and sat in my boys’ room to pray. It’s actually my favorite place to pray when I have the house to myself. As my prayer time came to an end, I looked down at my phone and

We read about many miracles in the Bible. For example, there’s the miracle which the Israelites experienced on their way to the Promised Land at the Jordan River in Joshua chapter 3. As soon as the priests, who were carrying the ark of the covenant, set foot in the flood-level waters of the Jordan River, the water

I was probably in middle school when my dad bought me my first desk.  It was a beautiful cream-colored desk with a nice accordion-type cover to keep all my things private with different built-in sections.  I kept it for years. The desk sat in front of a window that faced our backyard, the part of

As January draws to a close, so does our reading of Job and Genesis.  I do have to admit that I enjoyed reading both books.  I liked traversing back through Genesis and re-reading some of the stories that I remember from Sunday school, particularly the story of Abram. The friend of God.  God calls him out

My twelve year old son reminds me of someone I know. Me. People say we look alike, we definitely act alike, and we even think alike. It’s a little creepy. So I knew this past week’s visit to the orthodontist was not going to be fun. You see, we also share the same hypersensitive gag

When I was in high school, I had taken a Ceramics and Sculpture class.  One of our projects was making a clay sculpture.  After much deliberation, I finally decided to make a vase. The process my teacher taught us to use was the slab method which was tedious for this teenager: knead the clay, roll

You know when you are watching a movie and the character is about to go out in the woods…at night…when it’s storming…and the bad guy is out there waiting for them…and you want to just yell at them,  “STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!”.  It seems so obvious that they shouldn’t go but they do. I kinda have that moment

Well, here we are, a new year! Our study has started a new journey and we begin the year waist deep in book of  Job. Job is a fantastic book- all of the action is in the first two chapters and Job and his boys re-hash it for the 40 remaining chapters. Guys think that girls