Handmade Beauty

In junior college, thirty-eight years ago, a sociology professor predicted the current resurgence of handcrafted items. He said the increasing mechanization and mass culture would create a desire for the personal, the handmade, and the individualized. I was reminded of that prediction this morning when I ran across an admonition to Buy Homemade this holiday …

More than It Looks

  “I am asking you to bring the Kingdom to people, sweetie. That often looks small, as in quick acts of prayer, little kindnesses, and small words. But it is big. Like everything in the Kingdom it is more than it looks.”   God gave me these words a few months ago and I keep …

Take No Good Thing for Granted

Creator-God, Father, Today we would take no part of your good creation for granted. We thank you for lungs that absorb your oxygen and release our carbon dioxide. We thank you for hearts that keep up the rhythm for our pulsing blood. We thank you for bones that fortify us. We are grateful today for …