by Marie | Faith, Fathers, Gratitude, Joy, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Memories, Names of God, security, Such a Moment
With Father’s Day less than two weeks away, my thoughts drift back to one of my favorite childhood memories of my daddy. I had fallen and cut my knee open on a gravel driveway. Today, the injury would probably warrant stitches but our family had no insurance and...
by Marie | Devotionals, Faith, future, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Names of God, Rescue, Storms, Such a Moment, Trust
This morning’s news carried the announcement of a major earthquake off the Alaska coast, with tsunami warnings and watches for the coastlines from the Aleutian Islands to California. The tsunami turned out to be less serious than at first thought, but...
by Marie | Christmas, Christmas traditions, Faith, Holidays, Marie Wells Coutu, Names of God, Such a Moment
Putting up Christmas lights is a tradition at our house. Whether stringing them along the eaves of the roof or wrapping them around the trunks of palm trees, getting the lights up signifies that we are anticipating Christmas. I remember taking drives with my parents...
by Marie | Faith, Forgiveness, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Names of God, Such a Moment
What is so “good” about Good Friday? It’s a day when we remember how Jesus suffered and died. He was beaten nearly to death, He was rejected by His own people, He was deserted by His close followers, and He was disowned by Peter who had promised to...
by Marie | Devotionals, Forgiveness, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Names of God, Such a Moment
Forgiveness is hard. I once had a close relative say to me, “I know Billy Graham says I should forgive them, but I can’t.” She held anger in her heart toward several family members, and, as far as I know, she carried that bitterness into...
by Marie | Devotionals, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Names of God, Storms, Such a Moment
I spent an hour last week in the one room in our mobile home with no window (the bathroom) while winds raged and buckets of water poured down. Tornadoes in Florida in January. December floods in Missouri. Record cold temperatures. An unusually warm fall. A...
