by Sally Metzger | Mar 10, 2023 | Divine Design, God's Gift, God’s Grace, Raining Grace
A Gift Concealed 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,...
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...
by Sally Metzger | Oct 12, 2022 | Christ’s Humanity, Raining Grace, Raising Kids in Christ
|Experiencing Christ’s Humanity| As a child, I’d pull myself up and stand on the piano bench to gaze at baby Jesus. He slept soundly, stuck to His bed. I knew my mom was an artist when she cut stray branches from our Christmas tree and propped them up behind the...
