by Marie | Advice, Devotionals, Faith, Growth, Hope, Hurricanes, Learn, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Storms, Such a Moment
When you repair a storm-damaged house, you may need to first strip it down to the bare frame. Sometimes God has to strip us down to basics, too. That was only one of several life lessons provided last week from a seemingly unlikely source: high school students. The...
by Marie | Faith, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Rescue, Storms, Such a Moment
I know we’re not alone in feeling like it has rained enough this spring. Iowa, which has only a handful of decent recreational lakes, currently appears to rival Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes–only most are flooded cornfields, wet lawns, and water-filled...
by Marie | Blessings, Devotionals, Hope, Life, Marie Wells Coutu, Storms, Such a Moment
Who doesn’t love to see a rainbow in the sky? Rainbows are caused, according to Wikipedia, ” by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It...
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 | Devotionals, Discipline, Life, Listening, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Storms, Such a Moment, Trust
The fire alarm woke me just before midnight. I was staying on the second floor of a hotel in Georgia. There’d been a false alarm during the day a few days earlier, but it shut off after a minute or two. I peeked out in the hallway and saw people leaving their...
by Marie | Devotionals, Faith, future, Marie Wells Coutu, Mended Vessels, Peace, Questioning God, Storms, Such a Moment, Trust
“Has it ever occurred to you that nothing ever occurs to God?” Our pastor threw out that little nugget as a side comment in a sermon on faith, and it stuck with me. There are no surprises for God. He’s not sitting around thinking, and then gets a brainstorm: “Hey, it...
