Coffee Break: A Clean Slate

So how’s the new year going? Yesterday, my husband asked me if I had made any New Year’s resolutions for 2019 and I squirmed. I had just stumbled on an index card of last year’s resolutions and realized I’d only kept up with two. Just two! But those two were big...

Scarcity Says…Abundance Answers

A year or so ago, my small group from church studied C.S. Lewis’ satirical masterpiece Screwtape Letters. Set eerily in an office in Hell, one of Satan’s senior tempters, Screwtape, schemes meticulously to capture the souls of unsuspecting humans on earth. A...

Coffee Break

  Five years ago, my youngest daughter spent a year teaching in southern China. My husband Steve and I went to visit her, and we all took a side trip to Vietnam. While there, we went on a tour through “Hanoi Hilton”–the prison where John McCain...