by Brenda L. Yoder | Dec 29, 2013 | Faith
Do you believe God has plans for you in 2014? Are you familiar with the verse from Jeremiah 29:11? “‘For I know the plans I have for you’ declares the Lord. ‘Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Mar 29, 2013 | Faith
Like other parts of the Midwest, Spring is coming late this year on the Back Forty. As I write, the calendar says Spring has arrived, but snow is pelting the window. I’m a whiner about March anyway, so the late spring has made me a Champion Whiner. {Trophy,...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Feb 16, 2013 | Encouragement, Faith
Does it feel like sometimes there’s a big, thick wall surrounding you, isolating you from all that is good on the other side? I call this wall discouragement. I don’t like it. Are you discouraged? What are the bricks in the wall surrounding you today? In...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Feb 14, 2013 | Faith
A life-long principle that has challenged me and helped define priorities.
by Brenda L. Yoder | Jan 23, 2013 | Faith
The Notecard Series are posts based on old, spiral-bound notecards I wrote statements I needed in front of me at all times. As a stay-at-home mom, they perched on a window sill above my kitchen sink. As a teacher, they sat on my desk. Some days, they were words to...
