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  • Plans You Can Trust
    Sunday, December 27th, 2020     Audrey Frank     2 Comments

    [caption id="attachment_3724" align="alignnone" width="720"] The plans you can trust are the ones you yield to the Lord.[/caption] The mind of a person plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps (Proverbs 16:9). Trust in God, but tie your camel tightly. -Arab Proverb Man plans, and God laughs. -Mike Kappel, Forbes Magazine This year, we lost the privilege of plans. But you can’t stop a good human from planning. Hope is rising all around, and… Read More

  • Our Peace
    Sunday, December 20th, 2020     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    He will stand and shepherd his flock     in the strength of the Lord,     in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they will live securely, for then his greatness     will reach to the ends of the earth. And he will be our peace (Micah 5:4, 5). Our Peace is a person. His name is Jesus, and His coming was foretold by the prophet Micah, whose name in Hebrew means “Who is… Read More

  • A Christmas Gift of Endurance
    Sunday, December 13th, 2020     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured…so that you will not grow weary and lose heart (Hebrews 12:2-3). I discovered an early Christmas gift this week, tucked away in the pages of Hebrews. Jesus wrapped it Himself for each… Read More

  • A Pruning Christmas
    Sunday, December 6th, 2020     Audrey Frank     2 Comments

    [caption id="attachment_3700" align="aligncenter" width="596"] For my mother-in-love, a Master Gardener who taught me the fruitful practice of hard pruning.[/caption] I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful (John 15:1-2). Well, it seems we are all going to have a holly, jolly, pruning Christmas. The… Read More

  • Broken-Hearted Holiday
    Sunday, November 29th, 2020     Audrey Frank     6 Comments

    For my mentor, her family, and all who hurt this holiday season. The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18). No one wants to spend the holidays in a hospital.  No one ever wishes to spend Thanksgiving planning a loved one’s funeral.  No one ever chooses to spend Christmas unwrapping bandages instead of gifts, tending wounds instead of Christmas dinner. Wounds on their child’s burned… Read More

  • I Will Trust
    Sunday, November 22nd, 2020     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

      Psalm 62, Our Champion Defender I am standing in absolute stillness, silent before the one I love, waiting as long as it takes for him to rescue me. Only God is my Savior, and he will not fail me. For he alone is my safe place. His wrap-around presence always protects me (??????) as my champion defender. I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob. I will… Read More

  • Hope is a Person
    Sunday, November 15th, 2020     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for the One who made the promise is trustworthy (Hebrews 10:23). 4:00 am Prayers! Our son has lost excessive amounts of blood through the donor site where the graft was taken and his hemoglobin levels are dangerously low (for you medical folks, it’s 4.1). He’s as white as the sheets he’s lying on. The doctor thought the hemoglobin count must be a mistake and did a… Read More

  • The Light of Thanksgiving
    Sunday, November 8th, 2020     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Last year around this time, a tragic fire changed our lives. It seems only right to me that now, a year later, I process this with you. In one sense with the invasion of a global pandemic, humanity has been plucked from her life and put right down in another universe. It follows that just perhaps, the light of thanksgiving will help you walk forward too, like it did my family, even when the way… Read More

  • The Discipline of Thanksgiving
    Sunday, November 1st, 2020     Audrey Frank     One Comment

    You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them. Psalm 89:9 Again and again and again Lord You bring this word to me lately… And now it is Anne’s opening word tonight at prayer, which I barely made it to because of the enemy. My heart cry is, not just more of You, Jesus. All of You. -from my journal around 6:30 pm on November 6, 2019. From my journal… Read More

  • My Native Language
    Sunday, October 25th, 2020     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not understood it (John 1:1-5). My first language is English. I do not remember… Read More