Enraptured and Captured
Are you tired of plodding through life? Like a plane on automatic pilot, our prayers can be repetitive, predictable, and even humdrum as we go through the motions. Ever wonder if…
Are you tired of plodding through life? Like a plane on automatic pilot, our prayers can be repetitive, predictable, and even humdrum as we go through the motions. Ever wonder if…
Are you tired of plodding through life? Like a plane on ‘automatic pilot,’ our prayers can be repetitive, predictable and even humdrum as we go through the motions. Do you ever wonder if God really hears your prayers? The remedy could be as simple as admitting un-confessed sin. Think about how it felt when you first found out how much God loved you! It’s good to be reminded of His presence protecting us even when we were not seeking Him. 3 John 1:9 says, "We love because he first loved us."
All of us want a story that begins, “once upon a time” and ends “and they lived happily ever after.” The day the tragic motorcycle accident tore my husband Paul's physical presence from my arms, my world collapsed. My fairytale became a nightmare; my life as I knew it ended. With Paul's “promotion to heaven,” our marriage of twenty-eight years was over. I became a widow.
Mother's Day is coming up this weekend. According to StatisticBrain.com, the USA boasts a total of 85.4 million moms. The source calculates $671 billion will be spent on Mother's Day…
I’ve got remember to tell Paul, I thought. My daughter-in-law Megan’s face glowed, was great with child, in her last trimester. I listened intently as she excitedly explained the preparations for the baby’s birth. And then it dawned on me, oh yeah, Paul isn’t here; he’s in heaven with Jesus. October 17, 2009 was the day Paul was promoted to heaven, the day everything changed.
Today would have been Pastor Paul's 59th birthday. How will I remember his life on this, another one of his birthdays? It's the anniversary of the birth of Pastor Paul Giesbrecht. I’ve decided to spend the rest of my life remembering.
I don’t like change. Until his unexpected accidental death, I was married to my first husband for twenty-eight years. We had planned to grow old together, and during those first…
*This article was originally published in Reclaim magazine. Is there an empty place at your table this Christmas? For many, this will be their first holiday season without their loved one.…
“Joy to the world, the Lord is come.” The verses of the familiar holiday carol waft through the holiday rush at big box stores, yet for many the holiday season…
It’s my seventh Christmas since Pastor Paul, my husband of twenty-eight years, had the fatal motorcycle accident that tore him from my arms and caused his untimely home-going. I treasure…
Six years (tomorrow) have passed since the horrible day of Pastor Paul’s tragic motor cycle accident that tore his life from my arms. So in the past few weeks and…