My financial software predicts that, without a job, I'll have finally drained my bank account on December 25. Cheery day. My financial software also doesn't know how to plan for the surprising and miraculous! It's not that I don't think that I can stretch it into January, but that God's really given me an unreasonable hope and joy this last month! ( Read more... )

This morning I read something about Isaac in Genesis 25 that impressed me:

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to be his wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean. And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife ( Read more... )

I am risking getting stranded on Ancil's porch this afternoon as great big thunderstorm clouds rolled in as soon as I sat down, and they're still rumbling about ( Read more... )

To End All Wars: 240 grueling pages. Bitter, tortuous at times. But so captivating that I did not put it down until after the last page ( Read more... )