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Streams in the Desert for Today

It takes time for God to paint a rose. It takes time for God to grow an oak. It takes time for God to make bread from wheat fields. He takes the earth. He pulverizes. He softens. He enriches. He wets with showers and dews. He warms with life. He gives the blade, the stock, the amber grain, and then at last the bread for the hungry.

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Relationships of Mothers and Daughters

My mother gave me a great Christian heritage, but that doesn’t mean that our relationship was always perfect. Mothers and daughters have enough differences and similarities that they have to work on their relationship just as they have to work on their other family relationships.