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February 5, 2026

February 5, 2026

Residential School

“Children are a gift from the Lord, they are a reward from him.” Psalm 127:3 (NLT) As a child, I remember going for a ride with my parents and siblings one day after sundown. My dad was trying to convince my mom to send us to residential school, since our family was growing so fast, and he wanted to save mom from having too much work. I remember Mom saying, “No, I will never send my kids there. Those people don’t know who God is!” She convinced Dad that this was not a solution. Dad believed in God, too, but […]

February 4, 2026

February 4, 2026

Wrong Way

“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” John 14:6 (NIV) Cain was the first one who tried it. Multitudes have emulated him over the years, and it’s become a popular theme in today’s post- Christian North American spiritual quagmire. Simply put, it is the concept that a person can come to God via some other way/bridge/ road/belief or approach than what God has mapped out for us. The story in Genesis 4 tells how Cain thought he could replace the required blood sacrifice with the fruit, […]

February 3, 2026

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February 3, 2026

Submission Brings Transformation (Part 2)

“So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.” 2 Kings 5:14 (ESV) Yesterday I mentioned how the Word of God, prayer, and the comfort of the Holy Spirit empower us with spiritual endurance and strength to hang on with all steadfastness. Faithfully maintaining our devotional life during these times may decline and can become a practice of the joyous past. To help us understand this, let’s consider Naaman, a great honorable […]

February 2, 2026

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February 2, 2026

Submission Brings Transformation

“So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God.” 2 Kings 5:14a (ESV) As a follower of Christ, I have found that life can be difficult and unexpected events can challenge our resolve in our pilgrimage. The unexpected storm of grief, death, pain, trauma, or abandonment in life can lead to a long, difficult, dry and discouraging wilderness season. The storm seems to be invincible and hope of overcoming seeps from our hearts. Despite the trials that confront us, the Lord in abundant mercy and grace has given […]

January 31, 2026

January 31, 2026

I Ate a Bug

“A friend loveth at all times.” Proverbs 17:17a (KJV) I ate a bug . . . not just any bug, I ate a roach. My friend, Francis, was sweet and painfully shy. She worked as a bank teller 20 years and she lived with her parents until she was in her forties. At last Francis got the courage to leave home and get her own apartment. Francis decided to have her first party in her new apartment and invited her closest friends. She’d worked hard to have everything perfect, and she’d cooked all the food herself. I sat next to […]

January 30, 2026

January 30, 2026

Linked and Synced

“The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’” . . . “But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” 1 Corinthians 12:21, 24-26 (NIV) We are just getting through a technical electronics issue at our place. A […]

January 29, 2026

January 29, 2026

A Call to Healing

“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3 (NKJV) In 2017 God was calling me to leave my husband, family, and home for three weeks to do security work nine hours away. Also, it was time to do some personal work on myself with God. I called it a “paid retreat”—where I learned to trust God and listen to His loving voice. In the past I experienced mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual abuse at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Trusting others didn’t come easy. While away, during the pitch-black dark nights of the far north, I talked […]

January 27, 2026

January 27, 2026

Neutral is Not an Option

“Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve . . . but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15 (NKJV) “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear—I fear greatly—the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely,” wrote Winston Churchill. During the outbreak of World War 2 there were countries that chose to be neutral to […]

January 26, 2026

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January 26, 2026

My Grace is All You Need

“My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness. So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.” 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NLT) The apostle Paul was given a “thorn in the flesh.” Some scholars believe it had to do with his eyesight. Whatever the case, Paul prayed that God would take it away. However, God did not take it away. Why? God had allowed Paul to see amazing visions and revelations (vs. 2)—definitely something to boast about! Yet God says to Paul, “My power works best […]