I used to have my own definitions of longsuffering and patience. Longsuffering was putting up with something, and patience was putting up with nothing. The one was expressed in "I wish I didn't have," and the other in "I wish I did." There's more to both than that, of course,…
Have you ever come across a construction site where the workers were laboriously laying a tile floor—one of those mosaic floors with thousands of tiny tiles that create a picture when finished? While it’s being put in place, the picture isn’t clearly visible because the workers use grout to fill…
It was just a little thing, that smile on my baby's face, but it changed my perspective on life. As he woke and looked up at me, he was looking at what mattered most in the world to him—me! He didn’t care that I was dressed in mismatched pajamas, my…
Being a Christian means doing what we can to be like Jesus. We will never be perfect and without sin as Jesus was, of course, because we have our human nature to contend with. But as Jesus’ followers we are supposed to try to resemble Him in the way we…
Life is all about the little decisions you make every day. Decisions of the past have had their effect, but every newday can be a new start. No matter what has happened up till now, you have a chance to make the right decisions today. Don’t waste time reliving the…