There is an opened heaven, a stairway ascending, won through bloody battles of prevailing prayer. I felt the prayers of the saints, past and present, as I wandered Savannah’s gardens. My faith grew there among the mighty oaks—deeply rooted, moss-draped branches, their taproots sinking into rich Southern soil—still faintly stained by the scars of war,…
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A Roadmap to JoyPodcast
Ps David Blease from the Center for Israel interviewed me recently concerning my new book, “A Roadmap to Joy.” It was such an honor to be asked and share a bit of our lives serving the Jewish people in several nations and this book that echoes our journey and the unexpected outcome of supernatural joy….
Haze
Haze Three silent sisters sit in a semicircle on folding chairs in a nearly empty house—save a few dozen boxesand clumps of scattered things. These are the last vestiges of our parents’ seventy-seven-year marriage, and of our family life together. Box by box,picture by picture,document by document,we set ourselves to the inescapable work of bringing…
Holy, the Sabbath
The first time I encountered holiness—and it was an encounter—I had quietly entered the women’s prayer group that met at Calvary Temple Church in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday mornings. My mom would drop me off at a class and allow me to meet her back in the prayer room. I must have been mid-elementary school…
Every Pathway Led to Joy
“Through her masterful grasp of language, Bonnie imparts unique wisdom that can be learned only through trials, victories, and a life lived with steadfast faith.” —Nic Lesmeister, Executive Pastor, Gateway Church Every page of this book carries both joy and struggle. I didn’t write from ideology but from living, learning, and trusting God through it…
Preorder available
I’m delighted to share about my new book, “A Roadmap to Joy: Find Your Way in a World of Discontent.” The book comes from a very tender place in my heart. For years I have wrestled with the tensions that so many of us feel: longing for joy while walking through disappointments, pressure, uncertainty, and…
Winter Moon
I love a full, silvery winter moon against an icy-cold, inky-blue, clear sky. Its radiance sparkling upon freshly falling snow makes me want to stop–urgently–to “watch the meadow fill” just like my old friend, Robert Frost… and to gaze upon the moonlight sparkle-play upon the “downy frost.” There is dancing when the nighttime skylight shines…
Choices
Even the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow can’t buy contentment. It is illusive. Culture is abstract yet often dictates our lives in concrete measures. Choice is concrete yet seems abstract as we begin choosing how to live. The secrets of contentment, which transcend the content of our culture, is rooted in…
Across the Kitchen Table
I turn 75 tomorrow. I don’t feel old or irrelevant, although my culture may tell me otherwise. Older, more savvy friends and pastoral mentors shared with Wayne and me in our early 40’s that life doesn’t even get really fun and rich until your fifties. That was a bit of experiential advice that I put…
Connection
Sheltered between two Rocky Mountain canyon walls, my husband and I ascend the steep hair-pinned road. A deep sense of belonging settles as we view the beauty in silence. We have left the city behind in hopes of the serenity of clear blue mountain lakes, pristine heights and slopes of evergreens and aspen, and most…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 