There are varying levels of camping, ranging from primitive to very luxurious. In her personal diary, newlywed Susan Shelby Magoffin writes a tale of traveling across the United States in the ...
Running a river is a way of edging as close to death as possible without actually dying.
It’s an adrenalin rush, like being on a roller coaster, but without a safety harness in place. Our ...
We love the sunshine.
Humans need to spend time soaking up the bright light of day. There’s a definitive link between the hours of sunlight we get each day and the number of suicides in the ...
We love to recycle. Take something old, smash it into a new shape, throw in a little heat, and it comes out fresh and new.
Some recycling is simple. We want to be married in Grandmother’s old ...
We don’t want to see it. We turn our eyes from the mirrors. We ignore the warning signs. We intentionally pretend it’s not there.
That ache in our back, the one that might be more than just a ...
Little things drag us down. We awake, and we realize we’ve missed the alarm. The day starts off in a rush, and we growl at everyone we meet, even our family and coworkers.
A little thing, the ...
In the early years of the 21st century, the Central Plains of the United States, from Ohio through Texas, experienced a spate of minor earthquakes. Some were so strong that cracks formed in ...
The rain falls on everyone, saints and sinners alike.
We’ve heard that. Its truth is inescapable. We experience its reality every day. We’re headed to our son’s ball game, and we pray for ...
It’s easy to punch holes in the promises of God.
We pray, often in desperation, and lay our needs out before God. We trust that he loves us as his very special creation, and that he desires to ...
We like comfort food. We keep old shoes to slip on as soon as we get in from work. Toss out that comfortable tee shirt, even though it has a stain on the hem and a hole in the sleeve? Not on your ...
We are meant to be spiritually free. It’s why Jesus came to us, dying on the cross, and bringing us salvation.
What part should captivity have in our lives?
Israel faced this question in the most ...
Storms will come upon the earth.
May of 2015 was the wettest on record for much of Texas. The rains came at first, a welcome relief to a years-long drought. The lakes began to fill. Then the rains ...
We don’t want to be the weak link in the chain.
The goal in schools is for everyone to be a success every time. In business, every year should be more profitable than the last. Our yard should ...
