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A look back over our first year…
Dear Friends, One of my favorite year-end activities is to look over my previous journal entries. This tradition becomes even more important as my memory fades as quickly as my vision. My entry on October 4, 2012 reads, "Restore opens today." It's followed by, "Do...
Advent: The Promise
"Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear." (Isaiah 59:1). At the time this prophecy was written, Israel was suffering big time. You could argue that it was one of the darkest moments in the history of their...
The Importance of Waking Up
My favorite time of any day is the pre-dawn moments before the light comes. The world is dark and quiet, stretching out before me in a hopeful sort of way. Having just awakened from sleep, I am alert enough to savor everything—the dance of light and shadow in the...
The Lord Will Fight for You
“The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still” (Exodus 14:13-14) Do you believe that the Lord will fight for you? Pushing everyone and everything out of the way in order for you to see clearly that you are precious to Him – you are wanted – you are worthy...
by Tim Kimmel If you want to know the depth of one’s character, observe how they treat children and the elderly. Folks on the extreme ends of life’s timeline usually have enormous needs and limited capabilities. These built-ins to their age bracket often place their...
Grace in a Grocery Cart
A struggling Florida mom who was caught trying to shoplift hundreds of dollars of groceries ended up with food and a ride home from a kind-hearted police officer, instead of a ride to the stationhouse. When Miami-Dade Police Officer Vicki Thomas, 55, was dispatched to...
Freedom
I can’t think of anything to write today. I have a weekly deadline to produce a blog post for Restore and even though I’ve written three drafts, I’ve deleted each one because after reading them, I thought to myself, “Gosh, who is this person? I don’t like her.” Why is...
Strong Flesh and Weak Memories
As I get older my memory fades. My children love to remind me of the things I’ve forgotten. “Mom, you forgot to send a check for the book fair.” “Mom, you forgot to sign my permission slip.” “Mom, you forgot to put peanut butter and jelly on my sandwich, I only had...
Sennacherib’s Lies
by Cooper Pinson “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem? Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The LORD our God will deliver us...
Borrowed Shoes
My family of six recently moved to a new home. Everybody knows what’s involved with that so I’ll skip the part about what a pain it is. Four weeks after moving, I finally got to a point where I thought, “OK, I can live with this” and resumed my previous life. However,...