by Michelle Ruddell | devotional
“You’re going to make wrinkles in your forehead,” the voice of my mother played in my mind as I walked out of the bus station. As part of a ministry called Light in the Gap, I had just been with a group who meet, visit, and pray with women just...
by Michelle Ruddell | devotional
I couldn’t believe my eyes. There it was. The popular expression that I was determined to eliminate from my children’s vocabulary was printed in big bold letters across the front of my friend’s t-shirt. I couldn’t ever imagine her using...
by Michelle Ruddell | devotional
“I married him twice.” The revelation of this shocking detail results in some interesting looks on the faces of those who hear it. Efforts to keep their jaws from dropping and their eyebrows from raising contort their countenances into some...
by Michelle Ruddell | devotional
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 NIV This was the first verse in a new scripture reading/writing plan I started on January 1. The first three words stuck in my head for several days. New Year’s Day gets all the...
by Michelle Ruddell | devotional
“I never knew you were a single mom,” a woman told me as we walked across the church parking lot after a youth activity our teenagers were involved in. I considered her statement a compliment. Her words implied to me that our family appeared normal....
by Michelle Ruddell | devotional
I winced as I hurried across the yard. The pain in the bottom of my bare feet reminded me that there were acorns on the ground. I was chasing the ever-elusive ten-pound chihuahua/rat terrier mix named Pumpkin. He had escaped into the front yard. No amount of...
