A few months ago, I started reading a book “God’s Smuggler” by Brother Andrew.  I had heard of this book before and decided it was worth a read. This story is an excerpt of one of the many miracles that happened on his Service mission for the Lord.  This book is FULL of miracles, it was hard to pick out just one. The roads in Yugoslavia were extraordinarily hard on cars.  When we weren’t climbing fierce mountain trails, we were fording streams at the bottom of steep valleys. But the worst threat to the little VW was the dust.  Dust…

I love how the Lord takes care of those who are on a service errand preaching of God.  In this case, Brother Wilford Woodruff was sent on a mission without purse or script, preaching the word of the Lord.  In every instance of his mission, no harm came upon him.  He did, however, suffer through the tempests and storms, the unfriendliness of others, lots of wading through mud, travelling sometimes over 50 miles a day by foot to get to where the Lord wanted him to go without the sustenance of food. To preface this story, he was protected from…

Late one afternoon, we were heading home from a hunting excursion our family took every year.  I grew up in this small town, and as you drove down the street, there was a railroad track with a stop sign.  The tracks were rarely used, and as a kid I would just barrel through the stop sign, no need to look.  This afternoon, going down this same street, fast approaching were the tracks and the stop sign.  I had many of my children with me, chattering about the weekend, all of us looking forward to going home.  As I approached the…

Today I learned that chocolate prices are going up in January 35%.  As always, my first thought is how are we going to survive another chocolate price hike?  I then remember that the Lord knows me and anyone involved with our little shop and that regardless of what happens, everything will be ok. You see, four years ago when Covid 19 became a pandemic, we were getting ready for our biggest convention of the year in Seattle.  ECCC.  We were waiting to see if they were still going to do the convention, after finding out that Seattle was ground zero…

Recently my daughter and her husband were struggling to maintain their marriage. Things had been especially bad for the last 10 days and I was feeling bleak, worrying about my grandchildren and my daughter. One very bad night, I went to bed but was unable to sleep because I was so worried. I tossed and turned. “What was going to happen? How would the children respond? How would they live?” Dark scenarios and accusatory speeches rushed through my mind. I prayed fitfully, hoping to sleep, but not able to turn my mind off. After 2-3 hours of this, I once…