by Carol Carpenter | Apr 3, 2012 | General
“How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth! The sum of Your word is truth.” Psalm 119:103, 160a About ten years ago, we had just moved to a new community and were visiting churches, looking for a new church home. Â I walked...
by Carol Carpenter | Mar 31, 2012 | General
“It is better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting,  Because that [death] is the end of every man, And the living takes it to heart.” Ecclesiastes 7:2 This week my husband went literally to a house of mourning, and though our...
by Carol Carpenter | Mar 14, 2012 | General
Thanks to Tess for Red Trucks and Rotten Bones.  How very true! Jealousy and discontent can kill your joy in a flash.  Yet gratitude and contentment can restore it.A year or so ago, our son wrote about how God worked in his heart on just such a theme. (The background...
by Carol Carpenter | Mar 1, 2012 | General
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 1:6 October 31, 1992, we moved into our first house.  The frost had already come and the previous owner had graciously...
by Carol Carpenter | Feb 21, 2012 | General
I’ve noticed something. Â Sometimes we look at each other’s families and think everybody but us has it all together. Â Everybody else’s families get along better than ours. Â Their garden is more productive. Â Their children are smarter. Â We think other...
