Teenager’s Double Duty Desk

She’d wanted a desk for her room for some time – my younger daughter, Julia, that is. We didn’t have a big budget, but every once in a while we’d look. We just hadn’t found the right thing at the right price. Then one day as we browsed together in a local resale...

Milk or Meat

You wouldn’t expect a 30, 40 or 50-year-old person to drink milk out of a baby bottle, would you? Of course not! Adults shouldn’t be living on baby’s milk or infant formula, should they? We naturally expect babies to drink milk from their mother or a bottle and to...

Get Out Your God ID

2 Corinthians 10:12 For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. Have you ever forgotten your God ID? Perhaps you didn’t...

Restoration

Sitting at my kitchen table one day, I looked with satisfaction at the blue-and-white painted surface. Although I’ve rarely done DIY projects, I had tackled this table-painting project the previous summer as an experiment. My 15-year-old discount table with the light...

Dead Mosquitoes

Guest Contributor, Janet DeCaster Perrin, is a Christian writer and speaker in the Twin Cities area.  Winters can be brutally cold where I live. With wind chills below zero, at times, you can make small talk with just about anyone if you strike up a conversation about...