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Day 32 – Healing

40 Days 2024

Day 32 – Healing

It was a lovely, typical Southern California weekend. The sun shone bright and a light breeze cooled the crowd down as we cheered on our children in a competitive game of NFL Play60 Flag Football. Jadyn was eight years old and was the star (if there was even such a...
Day 31 – Serve

40 Days 2024

Day 31 – Serve

“Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). During my most challenging times, many individuals have been very quick to say, “You need self-care, self-love, and to take a step back from...
Day 30 – Make Me a Sanctuary

40 Days 2024

Day 30 – Make Me a Sanctuary

Throughout the ages, humanity has wrestled with questions regarding the sovereignty and omniscience of God. Such questions are not uncommon today. The desire to find meaningful answers continues. In a fallen, sin-stricken, and broken world, tragedies and atrocities...
Day 29 – The Grieving Process

40 Days 2024

Day 29 – The Grieving Process

“When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul. It is well, with my soul, It is well, with my soul, It is well, it is well, with my soul.”...
Day 28 – Two Hymns and the Stillness of Faith

40 Days 2024

Day 28 – Two Hymns and the Stillness of Faith

A verse I find particularly life-giving is one I first heard spoken almost three decades ago, when Sam Leonor began his chaplaincy at La Sierra University. I was sitting in a center-left pew of the same sanctuary in which we sit today, under the same stained-glass...
Day 27 – Miracles

40 Days 2024

Day 27 – Miracles

One of the many miracles in my life started in the spring of 1980 in Abingdon, Virginia. My first husband, a deputy sheriff, abandoned me and my son, age 10, and a daughter, age 6, leaving us without money for food and gas. When I tried to hire an attorney for...