The God Who Sustains
I’m not a mom who runs to the doctor every time my children have fevers. I don’t know if that’s good or bad…it just is. Usually, the trouble it takes to get sick kids to the doctor, wait inside the...
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Instant Perspective, Part One
“Deep sorrow often has the effect of stripping life of pretense, vanity and waste. It forces us to ask basic questions about what is important in life. Suffering can lead to a simpler life, less...
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The Importance of Newborn Screening
On June 30, 1998, my nine-month-old son, Noah, died. The disease that killed him is called LCHAD, and it is one of about 80 known metabolic disorders. Though this disease has no symptoms, it is...
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Pray for Melanie and Her Family
A few months ago, I asked you to pray for Andrew, a 12-year-old boy who suddenly developed brain cancer. His mother Melanie is a regular reader/commenter of God Speaks Today. Words cannot express how...
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I’ve never been more convinced than I am today that, Taken By Storm: Hearing God Speak in the Midst of Chaos must be published. Not because certain publishers gushed over my idea, my proposal or my...
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Balancing God and Life.Part 19: Regret-Free Living
For Part 18, My Stuff Won’t Last Forever, Click Here Now I’m really going to confuse you. At the risk of sounding completely contradictory, I must revisit my “unbalanced season” I described in the...
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Reflections on a Missed Birthday
Today would be Noah’s 13th birthday. I never got to celebrate a single birthday with my son, because he died a few days shy of 9 months. To say “it really stinks” is quite the understatement. But, I...
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Be a Life-Giver to a Tired Mom
Motherhood is exhausting, even on a normal day. That’s not a complaint, it’s a documented fact.* Consider, God immerses The New Mom into the beauty and wonder of Motherhood by giving her a most fragile...
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Depth Through Discipline, Part 4: Prayer
Confession: I don’t exactly understand why we should pray. I don’t understand how a God who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent can be influenced by the feeble requests of a weak, limited and...
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6 Ways God Speaks to You
When I had little ones at home, buried in toys and laundry (me, not my little ones), I’d meet my husband at the door at dinnertime, and for the next couple hours, I’d talk. And talk. And talk. I’d...
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