Yesterday morning, on Mother’s Day, I woke up thinking about Herta Schmidt. She is a minor character in the Gott Mit Uns Series, yet her role in The Prodigal Sons is significant. She is the grandmother of main character, Jakob Schmidt, as a result of her husband Bernhardt’s continual lengthy absences, the matriarch of theContinue reading “Characters Part 3: Seeking Forgiveness with Herta Schmidt”
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What Do We Do With Our Pain?
“I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!”—Psalm 27:13 (ESV) Perhaps you’ve read the Bible story about Job. He was a godly man who was taken through horrible, seemingly inexplicable suffering. Yet in the end, he not only received much more than he’d had before,Continue reading “What Do We Do With Our Pain?”
Characters Part 2: Chronic Pain and “Emmy Moments”
Part 2 in a series on Characters. Emmy’s struggle with chronic pain is inspired by my own.
God With Us
I’ve had the pleasure of caroling twice this season, as well as doing Christmas music at church, leading the children’s choir, and singing in a choir full of wonderful senior citizens who have become my Opas and Omas (maybe I’d call a few of them Onkel and Tante, since I myself am now in myContinue reading “God With Us”
Devotional — Things Remembered
“But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, ‘Lord, save me!’” Matthew 14:30 All I could think about when my eyes lit on this verse this morning was that Peter remembered the wind from years of fishing on this lake. Wind and storms would come up veryContinue reading “Devotional — Things Remembered”
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