by Sandra Heska King | Jun 4, 2013 | for reflection, PRAY
I removed the makings of a nest. Several times. But then I got sick, and when I made it back to the box in the side yard, they’d laid their eggs. Cream-colored, speckled brown. And so I left them. And watched them. Since they were busy here, I reasoned,...
by Sandra Heska King | May 28, 2013 | for reflection, life of worship, PRAY
A brilliant New Testament scholar once asked a group of us what is the most important word in the New Testament. We all took stabs at it. Was it love? Faith? Hope? Sanctification? Grace? “No,” he said. “It’s the little word let. L-E-T.”...
by Sandra Heska King | May 21, 2013 | for reflection, PRAY
I can’t tear myself away from the Weather Channel. Away from the photos and videos of devastation and heartbreak. I can’t breathe for the weight on my chest and the ache in my heart. And I’m stunned by the power. Oklahoma. Where the wind came sweeping down the plain....
by Sandra Heska King | May 7, 2013 | for reflection, haiti, missions, PRAY, SERVE
[serialposts]They mother the motherless, the mamas in this orphan village. The team that traveled to Jeremie, Haiti, the month before us went specifically to love on them. The photo of women washing the feet of women who wash feet nearly undid me. These mamas carry...
by Sandra Heska King | Apr 30, 2013 | for reflection
I see God’s creative finger in all seasons. But never more, I think, than in the spring when life unfurls. These are the days when all that glitters is green. Yet life is sometimes blood-tinged like the color of death in this new leaf. That also carries the color of...
