Quote from Allen Arnold

“Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble and He delivered them from their distress.” I have read Psalm 107 many times over the years. But today it seemed I had never seen it before. Truthfully, I often zip through a Psalm just to mark it off my Bible reading plan. But today…

Sobs leaked out of the play tent my then-3-year-old grandson commandeered as his sleeping quarters for Grandma camp. I peeked in. “Hey Buddy, I love you. Why are your crying? Because I said you earned a consequence for disobeying?” “No,” he moaned out. “I’m crying because I’m mad at myself!” Fifteen minutes earlier I gave…

  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death (physical, emotional) I will FEAR NO EVIL, for THOU are with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

God doesn’t like you. He tolerates you. He has to love you, but He doesn’t have to like you. Have you ever heard something like this in your head? That thought lived in my head most of my Christian life, ready to pop out at any given moment to harass me. Sadly, I believed it…

This is an excerpt from an a Christmas 2007 email I wrote to my daughters. Dear girls, Unity.  It sounds so simple, yet in reality is so hard.  Impossible, really, without the power of God behind it.  Unity requires a death and a birth.  A death to holding on to our desire to be right.  I…

Like many of us in the world, I have an issue with my weight. Whether underweight or overweight, getting to an ideal size is hard. And though it’s hard to believe, those who suffer from being underweight struggle just as much as their sisters with the opposite problem. Clothes are hard to find, health is…