Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17 The other week at our midweek prayer group, we were talking about the weather. It seems like we’ve been in a pattern of late afternoon thunderstorms recently and tropical storm Ophelia certainly didn’t change that. But since things have been generally dry, we all agreed that the rain was a good thing, even if…
A devotion by Miki Clouser Recently someone asked me what I do when I am depleted… It didn’t take much thought to answer. Every place I’ve ever lived, I’ve found a quiet alone place in nature, because alone with God is where I recharge and find sanity. If I can find a remote enough trail, I’ll just walk along talking to God like He’s next to me, because He is. Anyone who’d happen to round a corner and find me…
Recently, God dropped a theological bombshell on me, and my personal life is still reverberating from the aftershocks. I know that sounds dramatic. You’ll probably read this blog and say, “Eh, nothing new here.” And it’s not new, but for me, it’s fresh and transformative. So, I want to share it. Two weeks ago, at Wednesday night prayer group, one of our elders, Cliff did a devotional reading from Acts 9, the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It’s a familiar…
Last week, our Toyota RAV 4 broke down on a country road in southern Virginia, 300 miles from home. It was Sunday in the late afternoon and Pam, my sister, Leah, Amanda, and her fiancée Patrick were returning to Richmond after an afternoon of wedding planning at the Waverly Estates wedding venue in Lunenburg, 75 miles southwest of the city. They were in the middle of nowhere, in an area of the deep south that makes East Earl look like…