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Coming Down from the Moutain
Tomorrow, my daughter's coming home from the mountains of Zacapa, Guatemala. While we're excited to have her home, I know she's left part of her heart in Zacapa. God has been faithful in affirming her desire to work in long-term mission work sometime in her...
Small Deeds + God’s Word = Amazing Power
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fulfillment your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. 12 We pray this so...
Life Beyond the Picket Fence
Three years ago Life Beyond the Picket Fence (www.brendayoder.org) was developed with because I was living a life that shattered the image of "how things should be." I was a woman wrestling with life, people, faith, God, and myself. I wondered if there were any...
Life Beyond the Picket Fence
Three years ago Life Beyond the Picket Fence (www.brendayoder.org) was developed with because I was living a life that shattered the image of "how things should be." I was a woman wrestling with life, people, faith, God, and myself. I wondered if there were any...
The Vision
Three years ago Life Beyond the Picket Fence was developed because my dream of a picket-fence life was shattered." I was a woman wrestling with life, people, faith, God, and myself. I wondered if there were any other women out...
Seasons
Seasons
If I were writing a book chapter, it would be titled seasons. Changing seasons. So much has been happened in our life the last 5 years, even more in the last few months. Sometimes, individual days make my head spin.Seasons come and seasons go....
Good Investments with Big Returns
Good Investments with Big Returns
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break...
I Married Mr. Green Jeans
Farmer Ron comes home tomorrow. Yippee Aye A! I'm not dissing the bonding time Chocolate the Goat and I have had during our morning and evening milking times, but Obe Won and I are anxious to be demoted from full-time to part-time farmhands.Besides, my...
History and Soap Opera Theology for this Father’s Day Girl
Just Call Me Hormonal. Or Not.
Since this blog page is pink, I get to be a little hormonal today. Pinkandfortysomething I am, so I'm exerting my emotionallness.I'm been emotional lately.Not because I'm a basketcase (been there, done that).But I've found tears naturally...