Gathering at the Well Blog
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Every April, as many of the four of us as can journey to the Smoky Mountains for the Annual Wildflower Pilgrimage. From the time I was a baby, I can remember tagging along with my dad's Auburn University systematic botany students on this foray. My mom, a retired...

GET BACK ON THAT HORSE! Isn't that what we're supposed to do when we fall off? Name your area...overeating, gossip, complaining, slacking off church, drug and alcohol addiction, anger issues, remaining in a funk, refusing to forgive others...or even ourselves! The...

This week was the week to tackle a job that has been left undone for way too long!  When our family moved to Deatsville in June 2004, I retrieved my collection of antique rose bushes from a friend who had graciously stored them for me during our year back at school in...

It was April 29th - 27 years ago.  I was scared and nervous as we stood in the pitch blackness of an Auburn evening.  It was a beautiful clear night with the crickets chirping in the background.  As we walked through the gate and passed through the high grass in the...

In L.B. Cowman's Streams in the Desert, I found a glittering gem one day. "In Hebrews 11:27, we read that Moses 'persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.' Yet in the following passage, exactly the opposite was true of the children of Israel: 'Then they believed...

A few years ago, I went on one of my all-too-rare "Dates with God", something I started while we were appointed at St. Luke UMC in Montgomery in 2002. It dawned upon me, as a stay-at-home mom at the time, that I did little RISKING for God. Most people think nothing of...

He arrived slightly bigger than a quarter…but that was eight years ago!  One of my first graders, now a rising ninth grader, found him in a rainy puddle on the way to his grandmother’s house that spring.  Every year, my kindergartners have enjoyed his antics, and...

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” ― C.S. Lewis My son is a miracle. In fact, I know he is a gift from God. Psalm 127:3 tells us that “children are a...

If you were to ask me how many times that I knew God was with me, I would not be able to count all the stories or situations that I knew His presence was there, guiding me, comforting me, or even testing me.  I have had my struggles, and He has always pulled me...

The following is a story Anna Caroline wrote for use with her world missions women's devotional given at WellSpring on October 18, 2015. Each time the word RIGHT appears, unwrapped missions gifts passed to the right. Each time the word LEFT appears, gifts passed to...