Blogging Through the Seasons

“Let not your heart be troubled,” John 14:1, has had a special place in my heart for many years. Our family became Christians, and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Carmichael, California, in the early 1970s when I was about 12 years old. As an early-teen...

I come from a fairly conservative Seventh-day Adventist upbringing. My parents took on 2.5 acres in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State–building everything from the foundation of our double-wide trailer to all our outbuildings, planting a huge...

I have experienced many difficulties in the past, challenges which I overcame only by God’s grace. In those times, it felt as though God had forgotten me. However, this is not the case. We are told in Isaiah 41:10, “Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I...

I am a slow listener. If I really want to learn something, I tend to read and write it rather than listen to it. It isn’t that I don’t like auditory information and music; I just process it slowly. Several years ago, one of the passages used in a liturgy was from Luke...

“I’ll close my eyes and you pray.” These words were uttered by the young student who had been the singing evangelist in the effort we had just finished in Buffalo, New York, as we sped along the New York Thruway back home, to New York City for me and on to Oakwood...

“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11). Many of us cling to this verse of hope and look for all the blessings in our...