Have You Experienced the Power of Contentment?
Where do we find contentment? Not in the places most tend to look. Fat bank accounts, big houses, pretty clothes, and fast cars provide a measure of pleasure but not contentment.
Looking for Contentment in All the Wrong Places
I thought a dress would fill my lack. However, my real need was to know God was taking care of me. When I felt taken care of and could afford a new dress, I no longer wanted one.
How Did Mary Show Faith the First Christmas?
Mary’s mouth gaped. The angel had vanished as quickly as he’d appeared leaving Mary’s mind whirling with awe and questions. God had chosen her—a nobody—to be the mother of His Son! Who could she tell? Who would believe her? Would Joseph? The angel said her cousin...
Sometimes We Discover God in the Midst of Disappointment
My teenaged heart awoke to God while lying on my back on a dock staring at stars visible only to someone away from city lights. The smell of the marsh, the rhythmic lap of the river, and the chirping night symphony cast a spell that made me feel small, yet part of...
3 Tips for Finding High Quality Friends
Today Larry offers three tips for finding quality friends. Author Dan Miller once asked, “Is the music still in you”? If life has become more of a grind than a joy, you may need a friend. Women seem to understand this need more than men. Yet we all need friends. Even...
How to Be a Helper Not a Meddler
Are you ready to move from running-on-empty to spent-and-content, investing your life in soul-satisfying ways? My friends Amy Carroll and Cheri Gregory, co-authors of Exhale, gently walk us through a process of losing who we’re not and loving who we are so that we can...
