Category: 31 Days

The Root of Untruths {31 Days}

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It doesn’t take much to hurt a preteen girl in a way that sticks for a long time. At that age you just want to please people and to fit in. Recently God showed me that some fears I wrestle with come from wounds I received as a girl. As I’ve been digging deep I’ve […]

Strength in God’s Comfort {31 Days}

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When I was 11, my mom had twin boys. She had prayed for them, and God answered, “Yes.” Those twins are number 6 and 7 in our family of 9 kids where I’m the oldest. They just moved away from home this year for school. Of all my siblings, these two are the first to […]

Moments of Surrender {31 Days}

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Have you ever heard of Isobel Kuhn? She served as a missionary in China for 26 years in the early 20th century. But she didn’t start out on fire for God. Her parents followed Christ but she rejected their faith in college until God revealed himself to her and she surrendered to him. She wrote […]

Writing from the Heart {31 Days}

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One night when I was about 9 I got to dress my curly-red-headed little sister for bed. I felt so grown up. She was a mischievous stinker who could get away with murder because we adored her. That evening, my mom handed me a fat pink book with a lock and key. “What’s this?” I […]

Books…They’re Good for the Soul {31 Days}

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Sometimes a book sticks with you your whole life. By the time I was a teenager I had read nearly all of Janette Oke’s Christian fiction novels. Over and over again. And my mom got me into it with one book. Once Upon a Summer. It’s about a boy named Josh who is incredibly ordinary. […]

God’s Living Word {31 Days}

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“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when […]

Working Long Summer Days Away {31 Days}

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It’s strange how things you despised as a child you miss as an adult. Growing up on a farm was no picnic. We moved from Florida to Kansas when I was 8 years old. We’d only been on the farm a year when my dad started investing in livestock. My brother Dave and I went […]

Stories that Changed Me {31 Days}

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Who remembers the good old days of cassette tapes? We had a tall black upright piano in our living room with a stereo on top of it. Its two speakers sat down on the floor beside the piano. My brother Dave and I used to lie on our stomachs and listen to stories playing on […]

God’s Word at Work {31 Days}

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Sundays were simple in my growing up years. We lived near my mom’s parents, who until I was a teenager myself still had children living at home. Our family lived in Florida and we hosted church gatherings on Sundays. My grandparents, aunts and uncles, and a handful of others would come and we would worship […]

The Magic of Stories {31 Days}

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Day 2. Nothing thrilled my little girl self more than Disney’s Cinderella. Our family would borrow a VCR and the VHS tape from my dad’s co-worker and I’d stick that movie in day after day. Sometimes, toward the end of the movie, just after the Duke slipped the slipper on Cinderella’s foot, I’d quickly rewind […]