by Barbara Lardinais | January 13, 2023 | Wake Up Call
I have a friend who is getting ready to make a major life changing decision. Right now it is in the percolating stage where all the possibilities are still swirling around but pretty soon it will be decision time. Talking it over, he dropped this comment;...
by Barbara Lardinais | January 6, 2023 | Wake Up Call
One of my close friends is starting a new project at work. Even though she is fully qualified; when she steps back and looks at how large the whole thing is and how many repercussions there are she is a bit overwhelmed. It feels almost TOO big for her to tackle. She...
by Barbara Lardinais | December 30, 2022 | Wake Up Call
It is our tradition on Christmas morning to read Luke 2 and have a small prayer time before we open gifts. Once as I was reading it I was struck by something that I never noticed before. There is a part in verse 7 which says; “and laid Him in a manger, because...
by Barbara Lardinais | December 23, 2022 | Wake Up Call
I have a friend who has quite a heavy load right now. It involves an estrangement that has gone on for several years despite every effort. Only my friend and God know the deep anguish and soreness of spirit that she lives with. Yesterday as we were talking on the...
by Barbara Lardinais | December 16, 2022 | Wake Up Call
Moses was a great prophet; God used him to deliver the Israelites after four hundred years of bondage in Egypt. The Lord appeared to him in a burning bush and spoke with him over and over as leader and as friend. Yet there was a time in Moses’ life when he...
by Barbara Lardinais | December 9, 2022 | Wake Up Call
When I was little we lived in the small and very charming town of Mount Vernon, Ohio. All the ladies stayed home in those days and the husbands went off to work during the day. Mornings, many of the women met in each other’s homes for what were then referred to...