by Sally Metzger | Apr 16, 2025 | Poem, Pride, Raining Grace
You Left Me, Lord.Had you never gone, I would have thought—I overflowed with love,Was possessed by generosity,Rose above the simply worldly, not-yet-seeking crowd. But you left. And with you went every speck of my not-whole-but-holey “holiness.”Pretty clever, Lord—How...
by Sally Metzger | Mar 10, 2023 | Divine Design, God's Gift, God’s Grace, Raining Grace
Recently, it seemed my peace was surgically removed. Because of years of the repetitive motion of typing as a teacher and writer, I had an operation to cushion my thumb joint. I experienced the loss of the use of my dominant hand, pain, swelling, difficulty sleeping,...
by Sally Metzger | Jan 30, 2023 | God’s Grace, Prayer, Raining Grace
During my action-packed, responsibility-laden teaching days, sleeping wasn’t always easy. Praying and relaxing my muscles usually helped me drift off at night, but one night I was drifting nowhere. I was stuck firmly—exactly where I’d been all day—awake. It didn’t...
by Sally Metzger | Jan 10, 2023 | Faith, Home, Raining Grace, Raising Kids in Christ
| Tips for Parents and Grandparents | We always promised ice cream after church to make sure our kids would pile into the car happily on Sunday mornings. It worked—until the sad day it didn’t. I’d foolishly gotten a carton of double fudge mid-week, and our...
by Sally Metzger | Dec 22, 2022 | Christmas, Prayer, Raining Grace
Christmas is a time of gift-giving. In preparation for a new year to breathe, live, and enjoy another spin around the sun, we might want to ask Christ for the gift of virtue as our Christmas present in 2022. We’ll need virtue to live as fully as possible in the coming...
by Sally Metzger | Dec 2, 2022 | Divine Encounter, God’s Grace, Prayer, Raining Grace
Divine Encounter |I Struggled to Give My Son a Faith I Didn’t Have| I flew out of bed at the sound of Brian’s chilling screams. My five-year-old sometimes had bad dreams, but this was different. The air in his room seemed charged with danger and dread. “It’s...
