Sarah Portner

“I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.” (Jeremiah 5:22 NIV) I was talking to a friend yesterday, she’s getting ready to turn 93. She has been following Jesus since she…

  There are messages in the details of our lives. Now that’s a statement. This is a story that has been marinating on my heart for a couple of months now. A friend read something I had written for church this morning and told me “THIS is within your control” and I knew it…

I was struck with this question the other day; “How will you get to the cross this Easter?” For some of us, it’s an event that we plan for: what to eat, what gifts to buy, what will be stuffed in the eggs for the egg hunt, who will be coming and staying, and…

I’ve resisted a bit (ok – a lot – still resisting to certain degrees) with what I’m about to write.  I resisted for a year the word that has become my word for 2025 – that is not to say I’ve fully accepted it, but I’ve acknowledged that it is my word: Surrender.  Last…

I have been thinking a lot about that poem ‘Footprints in the Sand,’ specifically those last few lines where it says; “When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.” Me being me, I couldn’t help but compare it to when the boys and I were at the…

This tree is in my backyard. I can see it from every window at the back of my house. It has the prettiest white flowers in the spring. Yet it kind of fades into the background during the other seasons, but it has always stuck out to me. I’m not sure why. I think…

It’s been a long time since I’ve done this, but I was inspired this morning after a conversation with a friend: Calmer Waters I watched as they got caught up in the current Their bright colors swirling and spinning in the fluxes and flows Their dance only disrupted amongst the rocks and white caps…