“Gifts from God that are not acknowledged as such are deadly to the soul, because they thicken the illusion of self-sufficiency that leads to over-confidence and sets us up for failure.”. Tim Keller, Prayer, Chapter 8. I awoke in the night with someone on...
A friend made a generous donation and designated it for gifts for the Titus 2 students…….When I invited them to suggest what they wanted, it was nearly unanimous…..SHOES! Thrift store purchases and donated clothing are great fun and wonderfully...
From 2014…. I’m considering gifts today…..some received, some given, some valued, some cast aside. Some gifts are given that reflect the heart of the giver. Other gifts are given because they remind the giver of the heart of the receiver. Think of...
You may never know…..sometimes when a needed item appears at “just the right time” by some mysterious means from an unexpected source, it builds faith and demonstrates that God does care about the smallest, seemingly most insignificant things. But...
Gifts and giving are regular topics that come to mind. I have written about them often. I don’t think of myself as a particularly generous person and giving gifts is not one of my strong suits. In 1992 at a retreat this little sign was on the headboard of my...
