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There’s Always Hope

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“No hope!” That’s what the report stated so authoritatively. A young mother, tears in her eyes and a catch in her voice, handed me the educational psychologist’s report. In her heart she can’t believe her bright-eyed, healthy looking eight year old cannot learn.

“With God there’s always hope,” I answered.

A smile flicked across her face as she said, “Do you really believe that?”

Our world is no longer like the old song where “. . . seldom is heard a discouraging word.” The newspaper overflows with depressing articles. The economy never seems to have an up-swing and election campaigning becomes more negative everyday. The world is only expressing what’s in their hearts, for they are “without hope and without God in this world.” (Eph. 2: 11-12)

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A Fresh Look

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Our homes are a statement to the world about what is important to us. Why not take a fresh look at your home today and see what it reflects.

Sometimes it is easy to feel we have nothing to say about the way our home looks, especially when we live such lives in unusual places. In some cases we stay in staff housing and feel like we have precious few ways to make it our own. Instead of reflecting what we feel is important, our home may be suffering from indifference. Even worse, we may never allow ourselves to feel at home in our home. Change is just too much trouble and might not be worth the effort. Sure, it’s clean, maybe even tidy, but it feels a little stale.

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Divine Appointment

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Divine appointments, scheduled by God, come at some unusual times. Divine assignments often seem stranger than fiction. Beth Moore, a Bible study author, speaker, wife, and mother, wrote her Hairbrush story in her book Further Still. Hearing others’ stories can help us tune our ears to the voice of our Father.

April 20, 2005, at the Airport in Knoxville, waiting to board the plane, I had the Bible on my lap and was very intent upon what I was doing. I’d had a marvelous morning with the Lord. I say this because I want to tell you it is a scary thing to have the Spirit of God really working in you. You could end up doing some things you never would have done otherwise. Life in the Spirit can be dangerous for a thousand reasons not the least of which is your ego.

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The Invisible Woman

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Peter’s Wife began for women working cross culturally who felt invisible. Our goal through the years has been to remember our worth. One of our members sent this wonderful article that so well describes how moms often feel. It introduces a book by Nicole Johnson called, The Invisible Woman. Be encouraged!

It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I’m on the phone and ask to be taken to the store. Inside I’m thinking, “Can’t you see I’m on the phone?”

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Snowmen Melt, God Abides

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This Christmas season, Mike and I have the joy of being with our family and friends in America. Our family members are all well, and for that we are grateful. We pray it will always be so.

We have many friends here, however, who are going through severe trials. One is fighting breast cancer; another has a daughter who is in treatment for a serious addiction. Other friends have a grown daughter having headaches so severe that they make her (and her parents) cry. The headaches have lasted for months. They came following surgery for a tumor on the otic nerve, the nerve that controls hearing. Compared to these headaches, they tell us, a migraine is unremarkable.

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