It’s interesting how hope and a future are built in someone’s life. It takes history and study and observation. Years ago I had no idea how we would get our four kids through college. We didn’t have savings, and we didn’t have the income for a new car payment, much less college tuition. But . . . we had seen God take care of each and every need of ours over the prior 24 years of our marriage. So we read all the directions for applying to colleges and for financial aid and sch

It’s so interesting to read the book of Job and watch the interaction among Job and his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. When they heard of Job’s great trials and suffering (the Bible says “evil”), they went quickly to him to show him sympathy and comfort him. When they saw him, they grieved greatly and sat with him for seven days and seven nights–none of them saying a word “for they saw that his suffering was very great.” That’s exactly what we should do when a friend o