“Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.” Proverbs 4:26 This past summer God gave me a rare and precious opportunity to spend three days by myself totally alone with Him. I rented a tiny room in a small inn hidden in the quiet hills of my home turf: the beautiful mountains of Vermont. The first morning of my retreat I packed my journal, Bible, some snacks and water in my backpack and went out for a…
“For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:29 The campfire prayer has, in recent years, been ridiculed. Brushed aside. Dismissed. As if a single campfire prayer could change the path of a life, could sway the course of someone’s world! I am here to tell you today that there has been at least one life – the life of one quiet, very serious 12-year-old girl (a girl who got the rules bent for her so she could get into…
If you could live anywhere in the United States, where would you choose to live? Earlier this year, my husband Josh and I were faced with this question. We had been living in Asia, and it was clear God was moving us back to the States. But where in the States? Josh has his own internet company and works from home so our options were wide open. We pulled up a map of the United States and literally started praying…