Jesus said do not store up treasures here on earth but rather store up treasures in heaven. Almost every day I am amazed as I reflect back on the life of Kristen and how she truly lived out this passage. I continue to see incredible fruit from her life and how she stored up treasures […]
A Word of Encouragment
I love to go back and read my old journal entries to see how God has worked and moved in the past. Just this weekend I glanced back and started to read my journal entries from last Labor Day weekend 2013. And I came across this note: “Thank you Father for such a godly man […]
Special Day
On August 3, 1968, 46 years ago today, God gave this world a very special gift in Kristen McColl Sauder. What an incredible gift she was! Douglas Gresham was the step-son of C.S. Lewis who was married to his mother Joy. When she passed away, Gresham wrote that “she filled Lewis’ world as the greatest […]
Weary Hearts
Tuesday was the 6 month mark since mom’s passing. All day I ignored it, I told myself its just another day, I’m fine. But when I went to bed my brain started to shut down and I couldn’t distract it anymore. My eyes over flowed with tears as my brain replayed January 22 all over again. From in […]
Gratitude while Grieving
Gratitude while Grieving In his book Tracks of a Fellow Struggler, John Claypool describes the heart-wrenching struggles of suffering, pain and death through three roads. (His daughter had a difficult battle with leukemia when God took her home to heaven). The first one is the unquestioning resignation road. Travelers on that road try to […]
God's Goodness
I wrote this a few days ago, and hope you find some encouragment from it. The past few days it has been a constant struggle to believe certain truths the Bible tells me about our God, in particular that he is a good God. I cannot deny the existence of God simply because of […]
Just Today
Every day I have been waking up and feeling overwhelmed with the thought that it would be impossible for me to live my life without my mom. But as I was reading 1 Peter, this verse stood out- 1 Peter 5:10, “And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after […]
Be an Encourager
Dad read this email to us kids recently and it was so encouraging because the writer was spot on with her description of Mom. Please read below. “Kurt, I’m currently teaching a Bible study to a group of single women at the Oldham campus (Southeast Christian). The majority of the women are either brand new […]
