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Here, Now: The Better Thing

There are no holier moments on earth than birth and death. But it’s the moments in between that make up a life. A whole God-given, genuine life. Each moment sows ...

Sabbath… What’s That?

#killyourwifiJust this week my husband invited a couple of guys over to eat and hang out. We were all standing around the kitchen island polishing off some smoked gouda and ...

Valuable Souvenirs: What's Beautiful Now?

Editor’s note: Kate Merrick, her husband Britt, and their family faced a life-changing cancer diagnosis, long and painful treatments, and the death of their daughter Daisy. In the midst of ...

Can I Get a With-Ness?

Tel Aviv is a tangle of concrete, buildings, cars, exhaust, and armed guards. At first, we were swept up in the metropolis, gasping for air. We definitely felt like outsiders, ...

Every Reason to Laugh

True to God’s word, Sarah had a baby boy, Isaac.Can you just see her in her traveling desert nursery? Layers of sheepskins overlapping, white and resplendent on a bed covered ...

God’s Gift of Laughter

No, You Did LaughThe finest snippets of life are those in which laughter is at the core — events meaningful enough to be etched into our brains. Such times bring ...

Our Love Note to God

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Sit & Listen Saturday featuring Devotionals Daily audio devotions. Enjoy reading as well as listening to your devotional today from And Still She Laughs by Kate ...

Laugh Without Fear

Fear causes us to miss out on the beauty and joy that exists in every life. Fear robs, steals, pillages our very hearts and leaves behind a greasy film not ...

Losing Daisy: Cry With Me, Laugh With Me

I’ll start at the beginning of the end. In September 2009, Daisy Love, my darling girl of five years old, was diagnosed with kidney cancer. It was a Monday, the ...

#blessed

My daughter died of cancer at 8 years old, and I am blessed.Excuse me? Yes, you read that right. This statement appears to be oxymoronic, to be oil and water. ...

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