by Jane Anderson | Jul 8, 2020 | Encouragement, Faith
Do you pray? No, really. Do you pray? I’m not thinking of the simple ‘Now I lay me down to sleep’ or ‘Bless us oh Father and these our gifts’, although that’s a start. I’m talking about praying to the almighty and holy God who is omnipresent (everywhere at all times),...
by Jane Anderson | Jul 6, 2020 | Contentment, Encouragement, Faith
Have you ever glanced at something, and in a flash had a creeping feeling of dread? How can a split second of visual make such a powerful connection with your brain that, in a snap, moods are altered? This morning, I bounced down the stairs to my office – not in a...
by Jane Anderson | May 8, 2020 | Encouragement, Memories
I believe that every now and then something so spectacular happens, we remember it forever. But most of the time life is experience recycled. Our moments seem insignificant until they are gone like vapor. Then one day we look back. We meet our past while standing in...
by Jane Anderson | Mar 13, 2020 | Encouragement, Memories, That's Life
When I was in 8th grade my dad caved in to my mom’s insistence that we have a piano. Not a castoff or old upright, but brand new Kimball console. You might not think that’s strange, but as I watched the men from our church unload the monstrosity from the truck, I was...
by Jane Anderson | Jan 27, 2020 | Encouragement, That's Life
‘When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.’ This is what friends do. I don’t know what kind of day you had yesterday or the day before or the day before that. I do know that our days come bundled good with bad and sometimes...
by Jane Anderson | Oct 18, 2019 | Encouragement, Five Minute Friday
It wasn’t an unusual conversation. I’d heard it before, but this time my memory went back to the little girl playing jacks on the floor of the living room while my dad talked to some teens from our church where he was the pastor. The conversations often started with,...
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