Personal Stories

Farm summer scene

Let’s enjoy visiting together as I share some personal stories.

Click on the For Readers tab at the top of our home page. 

Scroll down to Personal Stories. (You can hover over the list and click on them or you can click the link in the list below.)

Here are some that you will find:

“A Reclaimed Treasure”–The story about a picture that I painted in 1971, reclaimed in 2015. It is here.

“An Altered Perspective”–The story about meeting a special woman at Munising Falls. It is here.

“God Has This”–This story shares a valuable lesson for my life from Proverbs 3:5 and 6. It is here.

“Lessons From The Empty Nest” — This story explains some thoughts about the transition from having kids in the house to interacting with them as adults. It also shares how to enjoy life when they are gone. It is here.

 

Counsel Comments

From our post: “Be the Church or Go to Church

“Discipleship is a lifestyle of building relationships, connecting with people, and speaking truth. We grow these relationships towards Christ. As people begin to see we care about them and they begin to desire truth, they press in towards hearing more about God and seeing how we live.”

From our post: “Job’s Depression and My Story”

“In God’s sovereignty and at God’s appointment, God chose a man who ‘feared God and stayed away from evil’ to walk through a deep, dark, horrific depression. I believe that the book of Job reveals through Job’s thoughts, beliefs, and actions at the time, that he was facing depression…God used this trying time in Job’s life to draw Job into a closer walk with Himself. Our God is not a punisher. We must see God as one who has open arms and is always drawing us to Himself, deeper and richer…God is asking you and me [through Job] ‘Am I enough?'”

From our post: “Jonah’s Counsel from God.”

“God is in the process of counseling the prophet Jonah. Yes, in a certain way, we get to sit in on a counseling session between God and Jonah. Although the session or sessions come to an end quickly for us, we still get insight into God’s heart and Jonah’s heart. And that is the core of biblical counseling, bringing man and God together in such a way that man is faced with truth about God and truth about his own heart. The result depends on man’s response to what he sees and hears about God and what God wants of man.”