Tag: pets
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The Gift of Faith and the Art of Surrender
Lately I’ve been thinking about the art of surrender. It’s so difficult to surrender ourselves in faith without seeing the whole picture. But just like the painter and the sculptor, we must have faith in something beautiful on the other side. Without faith, we would have no art, no growth, no relationship with our Creator.…
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The Gift of Water
My husband recently went on a work trip, and that stirred up some anxiety in me. We haven’t been apart for more than a few hours since we married. I thought about how difficult the separation would be, and sadly, I wasted so much time anticipating how it would feel when he left. I dropped…
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The Gift of Being Chosen
It was spring—not too long after moving into the first place I could call my own. I went to sit outside on the porch steps and noticed a black and white cat with a trail of itty bitty black and white fur babies tagging along behind her in a single file line. As they passed…
