Glimpsing God's Surprises

The deer are in the forest, but often all you get are glimpses. Like God's surprises.

God's Extras

Everyone is familiar with Sherlock Holmes, his faithful companion Dr. Watson, and Holmes's keen power of observation that solved countless crimes. ...

A Thankful Heart Finds Blessings

If one should give me a dish of sand and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes and search for them with my clumsy ...

Delight out of Disaster

I once read about farmers in southern Alabama who were accustomed to planting one crop every year--cotton. They would plow as much ground as they could ...

Hopelessness Breeds Blessing

Our Lord begins where we would never begin, at the point of human destitution. The greatest blessing a man ever gets from God is the realization that, ...

When Lives Don't Change

What a deal there is of going to meetings and getting blessed, and then going away and living just the same, until sometimes we, who are constantly engaged ...

The Blessings of a Wife

I would not want to exchange my Kate for France nor for Venice to boot; to begin with:

(1) because God has given her to me and me to her; (2) because I ...

Little Is Much with God

Serving God with our little is the way to make it more; and we must never think that wasted with which God is honored or men are blest.

The Wrong Blessing?

Tell me if you think [this] a vain subtlety. I am beginning to feel that we need a preliminary act of submission not only towards possible future afflictions ...

The Gift of Marriage

I have been very happy in my marriage, thank God. I have a faithful wife, according to Solomon: "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her" ...