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1. Your Ephesians 5:1-2 Secret for Serving With a Happy Heart

He was my younger brother, and then one day he was my hero. Mom was suddenly alone five years ago when Dad passed away on a snowmobile in Wyoming. I couldn't breathe in the night thinking about it. We ...

Created on 20 February 2019

2. How Jesus Is Making You New Every Day

I've been a little teary over the last few weeks. Mom and I were talking about it, as we come up on the fifth anniversary of my dad going to be with Jesus. "It's not the anniversary that's getting to me," ...

Created on 15 February 2019

3. The Bold, Brave Friend You Need When You're Confused About What to Do

Never make friends with anyone who is braver than you are. I remember our "little yellow house," as we call it now. I had prayed for nothing more than big windows, and the living room had three picture ...

Created on 06 February 2019

4. Your Hallmark-Movie Reminder of the Path to True Wisdom

My husband came home in the 4:00 hour, which means we had to catch him up on our Hallmark movie plot. "You're not going to believe this," I said to him, "But this girl has gone to a country that ends in ...

Created on 29 January 2019

5. Your Psalm 23 Secret to Perfect Peace

"Give me the estimate, and let me see if I'm still breathing after I see it," I said to the carpet guy at Home Depot. We were going to have to replace all of the carpet in our rental house. Slowly he turned ...

Created on 22 January 2019

6. How to Let the Holy Spirit Set Your Goals This Year

One thing I've loved (and hated) about the principal I work for is that he has really pushed me to do important things in teaching that I have not wanted to do. If I had been left on my own over these ...

Created on 16 January 2019

7. A Luke 10:27 Key to Guide Your Decision-Making All Year

It was a little over one year ago that we quietly started having the conversation about how we could best serve my husband's mom and aunt. His mom is a widow, and she and her sister (who is single) have ...

Created on 11 January 2019

8. Your Ps. 23 Way to Supercharge Your Faith as You Begin 2019

Did I ever tell you about the Judean hills my husband and I saw outside of Jerusalem? They came with real live Bedouins leading sheep. "See those circles?" our guide said. Yes, we had noticed the spirals ...

Created on 02 January 2019

9. Your Isaiah 9:2 Promise of Hope in Hard Times

You know what I was doing at 4:45 last evening? Setting the flameless candles. At 2:30 p.m., I rushed home from school, changed into work clothes and started pulling Christmas boxes out of the crawl space. ...

Created on 28 November 2018

10. How the Greatest Commandment Can Help You Handle the Holidays With Grace

Come up with me, to a rooftop cafe (that I've fabricated in my imagination, but it really is lovely.) I'll sip a hot mocha latte, single shot, skinny, half-chocolate, no whip. You may order whatever you ...

Created on 13 November 2018

11. When You Feel All Alone, Remember This Triumphant Truth

It might have been the last day possible, in Montana terms, to get home and do a final leaf pick-up "before the snow flies," as we say here. Everything outside has to happen before the snow flies, and ...

Created on 08 November 2018

12. What Would You Say to a Younger You?

I was listening to a podcast in which Jamie Ivey was interviewing Priscilla Shirer. Jamie asked, "Priscilla, what would you say to your 20-year-old self?" Her response was almost lost to me, because I ...

Created on 23 October 2018

13. God's 2 Peter 1 Process to Renew Your Soul

You should see the house my son-in-law and daughter bought last year. It's quaint and is located in an old neighborhood, with huge trees that overhang the street and drop a carpet of gold leaves on the ...

Created on 26 September 2018

14. Do You Believe This Candy-Coated Lie?

We were watching a competition show on TV last night, and one of the judges tried to encourage a young contestant by telling him, "Remember: You're enough. You've always been enough." And I lit up. I'm ...

Created on 12 September 2018

15. The Supernatural Secret to Getting out of Your Destructive Mental Loop

What was I doing a few days ago, you ask? Oh, you know: sharpening pencils, tweaking lesson plans, dusting my classroom, and taking a course in how to stop an active shooter. Normal teacher stuff. In college ...

Created on 28 August 2018

16. Use This Truth to Stop the Devil From Stealing Your Hope

The twist cone is my favorite. I would never order plain vanilla, but it's a nice complement to chocolate. These days I'm thinking about how sorrow and joy squeeze out of the same spigot and come served ...

Created on 02 August 2018

17. Experiencing Jesus in Your Most Terrible, Terrifying Moments

... n employ your imagination to be completely terrified at what he can bring to your problems and needy places. Christy Fitzwater is an author and pastor's wife living in Kalispell, Montana. She is the autho ...

Created on 05 July 2018

18. Closing the Gap Between What You Know and What You Do

Maybe if blogs had scent, you could have smelled how hard I worked on Saturday. The landscaping pavers that circled my mother-in-law's tree had slowly shifted with time, so I determined to pull them all ...

Created on 08 June 2018

19. Your Surprising Secret to Stunning Self-Control

Experience told me they would balk at the assignment, so I rehearsed a pep talk that would bat away their complaints. "Listen, guys," I said. "I can translate this list of verbs in 33 seconds. I'm asking ...

Created on 25 May 2018

20. Plumbing the Hidden Depths of Your Relationship With God

About 10 minutes from my childhood home in Wyoming, you'll find Sinks Canyon State Park, at the base of the Wind River Mountains. The locals call it "the sinks," which is actually the name of a unique ...

Created on 02 May 2018