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This post is by Vickie Pittman.

I had no idea my mom had written a devotion for a magazine. She typed it up on our typewriter circa 1985. It contained some grammatical errors and misspelled words, and I don’t know if she actually sent it off or just typed it up.

After her death, we found a manila file folder full of her newsletters. She’d put her devotion in that file.

As an author, I’ve had many of my devotions published. My mother cheered me on for everyone and always asked me when I was go...

This post is by April Ward.

“Chica,” said the gorgeous doctor with a set of fresh French tips and runway hair, “I’m prescribing you ten days of antibiotics, something to get rid of the mucus, and painkillers, just in case. If this doesn’t treat your sinusitis, there’s no more I can do. You’ll have to go to the specialist.”

And with those words, I bounced out the door, handing the receptionist and the clinic guard a sandwich bag tied with red curling ribbon filled with chocolate chip cookies, t...

This post is by Tami Rodriguez.

“God Time” has often been hard for me. I felt like I was doing it wrong. I am not someone who likes to spend an hour in prayer or do devotionals. I love to study and go really deep. 

I took a “worship personality” test awhile ago and my results came back as “intellectual” (which I didn’t know was a thing!). What it told me is I feel closest to God when I’m intellectually stimulated and my study of God is how I naturally love Him. This was life changing for me...

This post is by Sabeth Kapahu.

We are women pulled in a million different directions each day. We are carving out time to deepen our relationships with God in order to live for Him according to our unique designs.

We need simple, tangible ways to meet this desire. Here is an acronym that I use to integrate God Time into my life from the moment I wake through to seventeen hours later when I put my head down to sleep.

G: Gratitude

O: Offered

D: Daily

“Let the morning bring me word of your...

Post by Shaina Weisgerber

John 11:35

“Jesus wept.”

Knowing Jesus cried tears helps me today. If there ever endless amounts of encouragement, hope and truth come from one person, it was him. Yet, he wept. His humanity reminds me that he understands me.

It is okay to weep.

It is okay to be sad.

It is okay to wonder why.

It is okay to not understand.

During these uncertain times (and all times really), we proclaim God’s goodness, faithfulness, stability and sustaining grace. We also fully f...

This post is by Patty Lewis.

It was another “normal” day in our household last Friday, just doing our chores, some schoolwork, living our best lives in our daily activities. James, our 17-year-old son, came out of the hall from his bathroom and began to recite some words to me, just randomly. I tried to focus and listen well. Once he had completed his recitation, I took my moment to ask what he was saying to me. He informed me it was Joshua 1:8.  Aha!!  So, this was also my opportunity to ask a...

This post is by Jen Shultz.

My life is full of moments that make me think, why didn’t anyone tell me that? When I was expecting my first child, in the purest form of naivety, I counted out nine months to guess when the baby would arrive only to be told at my first OB appointment that it is actually ten months. Fast forward about 25 years and in that same hopeful form of naivety, I thought ringing the bell when finishing my cancer treatment meant life would go back to “normal”. The very real ...

This post is by Sabeth Kapahu.

There are times that the things we choose to memorize are based on immediate priority versus long-term gain. As adolescents we remember the lyrics to songs to impress a crush or the cool kids. As college students we cram facts into our short-term memory to pass exams. As business owners we memorize our mission for recall no-matter-what.

As Christ followers we consider scripture a high priority in our lives but the reality is rarely do we take time to memorize ...

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This post is by Jen Stanbro.

There’s a lot of great advice out there for creating an ideal space to enable your new, powerful habit of spending time with God in the morning.  Appealing to your five senses is a particularly wonderful strategy: choosing pretty journals, bibles, and your favorite pens, a cozy chair with velvety soft throws and pillows, prepping your favorite morning drink so that yummy smells and tastes greet you first thing, and putting tog...

This post is by Jen Shultz.

When I was first let loose on this world at a meager 18 years old, I thought I knew so much. Fast forward almost 30 years and I actually chuckled to myself when writing that last sentence. While I had traveled more than most people I knew and had been exposed to some of life’s hard truths, what I actually knew about life was more of a sentence or two. 

These days, I am the proud owner of at least a few chapters of knowledge. Even still, things will catch me unawa...

This post is by Deb Alexander.

I found out my marriage was in crisis on a Friday afternoon in September. I had wondered, of course - something between us was off, but I couldn’t put my finger on exactly what that something was. Until I could. 

 I wasn’t a believer back when our marriage fell apart nearly 30 years ago. Nor was my husband. We had grown up attending church on Sunday mornings and youth groups on Sunday afternoons, but had not yet accepted Christ as Lord and Savior. 

When I couldn...

This post is by Jennifer Dixon.

Psalm 119 is a fascinating chapter of the Bible that is filled with wonderful promises of God’s Word.  It tells interesting names for his Word and lists multiple benefits of knowing His Word and meditating upon it.  We can learn many magnificent truths from this chapter placed in the middle of the Bible. 

Two comparisons I find intriguing  are those of honey and light. Oh, that we could have a heart like David’s where we long for God’s truth and acknowledge the ...