by Barbara Lardinais | September 25, 2020 | Wake Up Call
I like the show on the Animal Planet channel called “Growing up Baby.” The other day they had one about growing up a baby elephant. One of the unique things the zoo handlers needed to consider with this elephant was his eventual size. Even as a baby the...
by Barbara Lardinais | September 18, 2020 | Wake Up Call
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful” (Proverbs 27:6). I hope you have a friend who loves you enough to wound you for your own good. I hope you appreciate it and don’t discount the wound in hurt or rejection....
by Barbara Lardinais | September 11, 2020 | Wake Up Call
After I travel to and from a place many times I usually start trying to figure out a shortcut. When you know the way well, you can begin to take back roads which avoid traffic, construction and annoying stop lights. Is there such a shortcut to holiness? I think so but...
by Barbara Lardinais | September 4, 2020 | Wake Up Call
I was having lunch with friends the other day and we were arguing (softly) over the motives of a mutual acquaintance who was acting outrageously. Some felt ready to write this person off. “Wait” someone said, “Maybe in his own mind, he is completely...
by Barbara Lardinais | August 28, 2020 | Wake Up Call
The devil circles around us all the time looking for our weakness, our vulnerability. He’s scrutinizing a spot in us where he can get in a jab of doubt or discouragement, or wedge an opening for sin. I have a question for all of us. Do we have to just sit there...
by Barbara Lardinais | August 28, 2020 | Wake Up Call
One of my dearest memories as a child is rolled up in the hammock, swinging, in my grandparent’s backyard. You have to understand that this was no ordinary hammock; at least to me. It swung from under my grandmother’s grape arbor, attached to a tree and...
