Have you ever been in a situation when someone was being unexpectedly pushy and you needed to stand your ground but it wasn’t easy? I recently encountered one of these tricky moments at a baby shower I was attending.
My husband asked me the other night if we can start eating dinner earlier in the evening. (A perfectly reasonable request.) Since working in marriage ministry I’ve been well-trained to honor my husband’s sincere requests— and I immediately responded with (equally sincere) enthusiasm: “Yes! Absolutely!” Only to realize, all too quickly, my tragic oversight…
Rachel is one of those “rarer than gold” individuals that you meet only a few precious times in life. You feel like you are sitting down with the oldest of friends, yet you never forget that she’s an incredibly accomplished and talented artist/actress/human being.
The new film, Return to the Hiding Place was God-breathed for many reasons, but the historian in me is most moved by its particular timing in our world’s history. The story is about Corrie ten Boom, the Dutch watchmaker whose family saved the lives of over 600 Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
We all have those people in our lives that we love (they are precious) but we don’t necessarily want to spend oodles (or in some cases, any) time with them. They, on the other hand, seem to have a gift for persistence in trying to spend time with us.