Written by Dawn Rutan Awhile back I was walking in my yard after dark and in the grass I saw a tiny little point of light. I turned on my flashlight and poked around and decided it was coming from a glowworm larvae that was about a quarter inch long. The glowing part was only […]
Written by Dawn Rutan I’m reading the book Fearless, by Suzanne D. Williams, which has some helpful and encouraging thoughts in regards to fear. She points out that Philippians 3:13 calls us to forget (no longer care for) those things that lie behind. “Allowing the cares of life, in this case the fear, to operate
Written by Dawn Rutan In How to Really Love God as Your Father, Deborah Newman comments: “Imagine yourself at five years old. What is on your five-year-old mind? Do you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders? …Unless your childhood included some extenuating circumstances… remembering yourself as a little child should include carefree
Written by Dawn Rutan Joseph told his brothers, “So it was not you who sent me here but God…” (Genesis 45:8 ESV). Mordecai told Esther, “Who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14). God told Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew
Written by Dawn Rutan This post builds on one I wrote in August. In the midst of some recent research, I came across this statement in Gilbert Bilezikian’s book Beyond Sex Roles: “Where God wants to create unity and cohesion, the enemy seeks to cause alienation and separation. From the moment of our birth, a
Written by Dawn Rutan I had started writing this post last week, but was too busy and stressed to finish it. I guess I was intended to wait a few days so that others could contribute to the final product… I don’t know about anyone else, but I have trouble figuring out how not to