by Someday Refuge | Feb 2, 2026 | Blog
Brent and I just returned from an intimate time with his siblings after the sudden passing of our Brother-in-Law. Walking so closely with my beloved sister-in-law through those first days without him brought my own grief back in a profound way. This time, though, I...
by Michelle Lapp | Dec 19, 2025 | Blog
Selah… pause and calmly think about this! (AMP, many Psalms) This year’s holiday season has been different, both painful and monumental: empty seats at the table, adjustment to life with grown up kids, miracles in ministry, God’s generous provision… Life in this world...
by Michelle Lapp | Aug 12, 2025 | Blog
Chosen and Dearly Loved What being an adoptive mom has taught me about God I’ve been interviewed on podcasts many times, but never by my own son. It was a breezy summer afternoon and Joseph was home from college for a visit. Everyone else in the house was elsewhere...
by Michelle Lapp | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog
“Sometimes we hold a romantic connection to the past. It serves (and feels) like a rubber band that pulls us back to something that no longer exists.” – Bruce S. In my case, my recent return to Kenya to speak at a women’s retreat was a two-week, technicolor revelation...
by Michelle Lapp | Feb 13, 2025 | Blog
Somewhere in the Judean Desert, 2017. iPhone photo by me 😊 One of the most universal things about suffering is that when your time comes to experience it, you feel like you’re going through it alone. Nobody understands. It’s isolating. Sometimes it’s just a feeling...
by Michelle Lapp | Jan 29, 2025 | Blog
“The LORD brings death and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and raises up. The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and he exalts. He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the needy from the ash heap.” 2 Samuel 2:6-8 Besides the Bible, my...
