I’ve taught on discernment and listening to God for years, and in the past couple of years have prayed through the process with a few other people. But I’m starting to build an online course on how to do this, and want to do a lot of extra research so I don’t miss anything. There are truckloads of books and articles that teach how to listen to God, and I felt overwhelmed. So just a few minutes ago I prayed, “Lord, please give me wisdom to know what I should teach in the course. Help me understand what I should say.” Then I went to biblegateway.com to start my Bible…

Corrie Ten Boom (kor-ee ten bome) was born in 1892 in the Netherlands. She was a middle-aged woman in a middle-class home, never married, living quietly in her quiet town. Then the Nazi war machine rolled over the Netherlands, and hell erupted on earth… but heaven was stronger. The Hiding Place is Corrie’s autobiography that introduced her to the post-war world. She preached a message of the love and grace of Jesus Christ, of trust in God, and of forgiveness in the face of horrific evil. Then Corrie faced her greatest test in the form of a former Nazi guard. Did she believe what she preached? In Corrie’s Own Words…

For more, listen to my podcast “Joy in the Desert,” which includes a moving interview with Jane Burt. Jane knows exactly what it is to walk through the desert, she has been all her life. And she loves and trusts the One who leads her. I need to explain my title, “Joy in the Desert.” My friend Kathy Smith told me that she didn’t like the title because she thinks the desert is beautiful. A lot of people do, and I don’t mean to knock it. But there’s a reason I’m using it in the podcast title. I live in a beautiful mountain town in Southern California named Wrightwood. We…