by Barbara Lardinais | June 15, 2022 | Article
I would like to have everything in my life just so. Easy. Convenient. Smooth running. The best parking space just as I pull into the grocery store parking lot. Friends who are always there for me. A church that is always there for me. Finances that are always there...
by Barbara Lardinais | June 1, 2022 | Article
Who can doubt how powerful music is? For both good and bad, music affects and influences us at very deep levels. Music sets the mood and so often molds our emotional state. Whenever I hear the 1812 Overture played at a Fourth of July celebration just as the fireworks...
by Barbara Lardinais | May 25, 2022 | Article
“For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.” Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians in 11:2. I once adopted a darling little Boston terrier I named Pepper Ann....
by Barbara Lardinais | May 11, 2022 | Article
“But we prayed to our God, and because of them we set up a guard against them day and night.” (Nehemiah 4:9) Have you ever found yourself square in the middle of an “in between” place? That’s where you aren’t on hold anymore; things have started to happen....
by Barbara Lardinais | April 27, 2022 | Article
“Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.” Job 7:11 When trouble hits, one of our first responses is usually to cry out “Why, God?” Even though Jesus said, “In this world you will...
by Barbara Lardinais | April 13, 2022 | Article
“For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they should teach them to their children, that the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, that they may arise and tell them to their...
