Before you even BEGIN to think about this coming Christmas, STOP and read Alexandra Kuykendall’s words as she reminds us of what we tend...

The Learning Teacher ... And the Teaching Learner By Elisa Morgan "Where are you headed this week?" Carla asked the question to plan...

How do you respond to the "stranger" among you? Do you see Jesus in everyone you meet, no matter their origin or where they are heading?...

Disappointment can slam shut the doorway to experiencing God's presence. Carol Kent knows this well and offers real hope from her own...

Story-telling can be difficult for some of us. Especially when we don't really want to tell the story because we're pretty much ashamed...

Mom Friends By Elisa Morgan When I became a mom, I had no idea who I was. Oh, I had known who I was - in the months and years before...

What's on your to-do list today? Hayley DiMarco helps us reconsider just what's really important for our focus in our relationships and...

It's hard to know just how to pray for all the needs in and around us, isn't it? Tragedy surrounds us! Keri Wyatt Kent offers the wisdom...

I'm embarrassed to say that it took me putting my own feet on the soil in Kenya to begin to understand the great needs regarding maternal...

A Glossary for Grief By Elisa Morgan There is no specific word in the English language to describe a parent who has lost a child. A wife...

How often do we miss the freedom God provides for us when we get "stuck" in unexpected journey turns? Read on and discover how to find...

Relationships can be risky. And yet life without them leaves us lonely - and less than our best. We need others to make us better...

The title of my first book was "I'm Tired of Waiting." I wrote it when I was nearly thirty, weary in the wait for a child through...

In celebration of my first devotional published in Our Daily Bread, under the title, "Nozomi Hope," Sue of the Nozomi Project shares...

Who Knew? By Elisa Morgan Who knew that some forty-five years ago in a high school English class, I'd pull out a spiral notebook and...

I often hear from readers that they've sensed a nudge to write. So I asked my dear friend, Margaret Feinberg, a writing muse for many, to...

When things break in our lives sometimes we have no choice but to throw them away and move on. Then there are the startling moments, when...

It can be hard to know how to help when someone we care about is suffering. Vivian Mabuni points us to the present of presence. Elisa The...

What are you waiting for? And how well are you doing at waiting in your wait? Life is really one wait after another. Read on as Amanda...

We've all been there: in a moment when we couldn't find the right words to say so we said the wrong ones. Nicole Unice helps peel back to...