By Melissa Stone - June 10, 2024 From my picnic table in the prayer garden, I see a broken limb from my neighbor's hackberry perching...

By Melissa Stone - December 11, 2023 Picture with me an ancient prison cell: bland—and precious little—food, cold, dark, damp, and...

By Melissa Stone - October 6, 2023 February-June and September-December usually find me in my prayer garden in my backyard. (On the...

By Melissa Stone Those in Bowling Green, Kentucky probably remember the heat on August 25. I am not a fan of summer for this reason and...

Ah, the sights, scents, and sounds of fall. Although temps will be in the nineties the first week of meteorological fall (September 1-7),...

By Tina Barbour Psalm 85:1 The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest. As I have planted and watered...

By Tina Barbour Did you know? Johan Sebastian Bach lost his little daughter and then three sons and then his wife. Then he remarried and...

by Melissa Stone I’m in the garden shed, the pitter-patter of light rain on the metal roof adding a staccato rhythm to my quiet musing:...

By Melissa Stone “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 It’s a rainy day and a Monday, and the Carpenters are...

By Melissa Stone “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” 1...

By Melissa Stone Many of you in our Facebook group are artists of some kind. As such, I’d like to share an encouraging devotional by...

By Melissa Stone We have successfully crossed over into 2023. Some of us may have new year’s resolutions, others not. I don’t make...

by Tina Barbour LUKE 2:1-20 “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.” — Luke 2:11 “Silent...

By Tina Barbour Philippians 4:6 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,...

By Melissa Stone Welcome the Wind “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking...

by Melissa Stone REBUILDING WHAT SATAN HAS DESTROYED: IT STARTS ON OUR KNEES Ezra, the priest and scribe, and Nehemiah, later the...

By Melissa Stone MAY MEDITATION A garden, like a person, is never finished; it is always in a state of flux. Where there is growth and...

By Tina Barbour Is there any area in your life where you have become weary of praying? Luke 1:37, “For with God nothing shall be...