Guideposts

I heard a burst of barking from Gracie, who leaped up from her nap on the couch. It amazes me how dogs can awaken so energetically from a deep sleep. She trotted all businesslike to the living room window. A delivery truck was backing down the drivew

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I woke to darkness and lay in bed going over the busy day ahead of me. Finally I got up and flicked on the light switch—nothing happened. I checked my phone. No Wi-Fi, no data. With our spotty cell service, there was no way of knowing if we had recei

I scanned the shelves of the department store, searching for a glint of silver. “Lord, guide me to the right gift,” I asked. It was July 1970, and my in-laws’ twenty-fifth wedding anniversary was just around the corner—their silver anniversary. Thoug

On a cold, foggy day in December 2005, my husband, John, and I arrived in Flossenbürg in eastern Germany, the site of the concentration camp where Dietrich Bonhoeffer was taken more than 75 years ago. In snow above our ankles, we groped our way towar

“Can you perform a hymn for us next week?” my pastor asked me after Sunday service. “Of course!” I said. The idea, though, made me anxious. I hadn’t performed at church in a long while. Music had always brought me peace and made me feel closer to God

The line at the pharmacy winow snaked around the corner. I groaned. I pulled out my smartphone, thinking I could check my emails, but there was no reception. I groaned again. My wife and I needed some prescriptions filled before a trip, and we were a

Hope, faith, trusting in what you cannot see. All those things sounded great in church while I was growing up. I had no doubt they’d sustain me when I married at 17. Three years later, standing barefoot in my unheated kitchen, I wasn’t finding it so

God answered my many prayers for a new job. I’d been searching for eight months. In the midst of the darkest time, he opened the door bright and fast! —ANGELA Thank you, Lord, for giving me the words to use when delivering a difficult message to my c

People Helping People Giving to others is such an important expression of faith. As we give to others, we better understand our call to “love one another as our selves.” Find powerful stories of giving at guideposts.org/people helping-people. Answere

For more than 30 years, my husband, Bill, enjoyed reading Daily Guide posts—now known as Walking in Grace—every morning. He considered the devotional as spiritual armor he put on each new day, often using it in the Bible class he taught. At the end o