When life hands you lemons, make lemonade, right? My shepherd mix, Mitch, exemplified that philosophy quite well this past weekend. In our household, Saturdays are hiking days. Mitch, ever full of energy, loves to hike, so he looks forward to the weekends with great anticipation. Two weekends ago, however, my ...

Where I live, every day since the Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage, it has rained. The evening of the ruling, I was awakened to a violent thunderstorm. I felt the Lord spoke to my spirit, “These are the tears from heaven.” Every afternoon, for several days now, the ...

There’s not much good news out there. When my husband was deployed, we wives had a saying, “No news is good news,” meaning that if we heard nothing from or about our husbands, it was a good thing. Today, it’s tempting to bury my head in the day-to-day, flip the ...