by debracelovsky | Mar 25, 2019 | Into the Vineyard, Lent/Easter
What I finally learned about pruning roses. (They need not dread my approach anymore.) First: God is a gardener. You’re reading through Genesis Chapter 2, and there it is: The Lord God planted a garden. One assumes that, since He planted it, He tended it....
by debracelovsky | Nov 11, 2018 | Liberty
In 1975, Sam and I, newly married, lived in a small village in West Germany called Hefersweiler. It lay just north of Kaiserslautern, a city that had the largest concentration of Americans outside the continental United States at that time. This was due to the huge...
by debracelovsky | Jun 20, 2018 | Dads, Family Life, Word
Boy, did I have a blog post for Father’s Day. Challenging, astonishing, horrifying. I wrote through the first 19 verses of Genesis 22, trying to imagine that three day journey to Mount Moriah from Abraham’s perspective. I delved into the story as they walk...
by debracelovsky | Jan 1, 2018 | Family Life, Word
If you had taken me aside on December 31, 2016 and said: Hey, Deb! This time next year you’ll be living in an RV! I would have rolled my eyes and continued making cookies in my newly remodeled kitchen. Yet we awoke this New Year’s Day – and the...
by debracelovsky | Dec 5, 2016 | Prayer, Travel
Earlier this year it was announced that our church was sending a team to Cuba in November with Forward Edge International, a Christian relief and development organization. Our team of 7 from Thrive Church in Santa Rosa, California and 4 from Meridian, Idaho landed on...
