Finding Hope in Unexpected Places
When we journey through a three-year marital separation, face unwanted health problems, cry through the night for a prodigal, or watch dreams crumble, we don’t expect to find hope. But, amazingly, we can. It’s happened to me. Although the challenges of life may seem too heavy, too complicated, too confusing, and too bogged down in “stuff” to leave an open pathway for the joys we cherish most, hope is closer than we think.
It all begins with the heart.
In “Heart Talk” we’ll journey together and talk heart to heart, looking at life and love, sharing thoughts and feelings, and discovering all the good things God has for us. Once a month, the blog will feature other authors who’ve written books to nurture your heart as well.
Beyond Our Imagination
As we cry out to God with open hearts and hands, we often touch the face of hope in ways we never imagined.
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- After Winter comes the Spring – Nature’s Message of Hope
Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone. The flowers are springing up, the season of singing birds has come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air. The fig trees are forming young fruit, and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming. (Song of Solomon 2: 11-13) As I watch new life… - A Savior Who Knows the Pain of Rejection
AS WE APPROACH Easter and the celebration of the resurrection, we first come to the cross. For before the victory is the pain and suffering. If we are among those who have suffered rejection, we meet there a Savior who knows our pain. For not only did Jesus suffer the pain of an excruciating death… - A Sacred Flow of Tears
…When Our Tears Touch the Heart of God… I HEARD HER VOICE CRACKING as she described the situation in her marriage to me over the phone. She paused briefly, cleared her throat, and resumed her story. I could tell she was trying to hold back her emotions. At the end of our conversation, I asked… - My Messy Garden
FEELING THE NEED for a concentrated time of prayer one morning, I stepped onto the patio with Bible in hand. I felt unsettled and discouraged. Things were not going as I thought they should, and I felt my heart tugging in several directions. The needs in my life seemed numerous. I longed for direction, but my… - What Do I Do With This New Year?
THERE’S SOMETHING SCARY and surreal about entering a new year when your life is in upheaval—kind of like looking ahead into a vast unknown. You don’t know if you want to step out into it, but you know you have no choice. Time propels you forward. Whether you choose to take that step or not,… - A Star to Guide Us
SITTING BENEATH THE STARS at a Christmas concert in the park, I listened to the familiar strains of “We Three Kings” soaring sweetly into the air. As I lifted my eyes to gaze through the interplay of branches above me, my mind drifted with the words of the song. I thought about those three kings…
SILVER AND GOLD
TREAT HIM LIKE SILVER AND GOLD, LINDA. Treat him like silver and gold.
Jean sat forlornly on the couch, relating to me the bizarre set of circumstances she had recently experienced when her husband collapsed from a heart attack and she was unable to give him the required mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because she had a broken jaw and the doctors had clamped her mouth shut. Her husband was in a coma and not expected to live. She looked at me with longing as she spoke—longing for the presence of the man who had shared her life for almost half a century.
