Prayerful Pondering

by Pat Luffman Rowland

Author: Pat Luffman Rowland

  • Let your miracle prepare someone else to receive their own.

  • She Taught Me to Pray

    The earliest visual memory of my grandmother is of her praying. She was on her knees, beside her bed, and it was her last prayer before sleeping. Mama’s long braids fell down her back, over her homemade gown, and she prayed aloud. As a child, when I was sick with something that made me feel…

  • Calls to Serve

    Some assignments are so clear, you simply cannot miss them. Others may be subtle little nudges that can go easily unnoticed. They seem small, happen quickly, and are easily passed by.

  • “If any of us would receive an assignment for Christian service, it must come from Christ Himself. If we hope to succeed in that assignment, we must do so while in perpetual, personal fellowship with Christ . . . and never stop working until He Himself comes to discharge us from the service because there…

  •  God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. –Genesis 1:25 (NLT) I love that last part: God saw that His creation was good. Simply put, He loved them. And, it has never been lost on me…

  • Hospitals know a lot of heartaches. An illness brings someone in, but that person comes with all their problems and they should never be under-estimated in their journey of healing. During my years as a patient advocate, I came to know a lot of wonderful people and a lot of their heartaches. The very first…

  • Like Forrest Gump and his box of chocolates, blueberries can be like life and surprise us, too.

  • Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old, he will not depart from it. –Proverbs 22:6 In the nine years I tutored second graders, I learned a lot about my young friends. I heard their stories. Happy stories, some sad stories, and lots of wishful ponderings. There were…

  • One Christmas season, my mother said to me “don’t give me anything else if I can’t wear it or eat it.”  Mother spoke out of her practical nature. She was cut from the cloth of her father, always sensible and direct. Mother had reached an age where she didn’t need nor want anything else. It…

  • The Labor and Love of Quilting

    Do everything in love. –1 Corinthians 16:14 (NIV) In the 1970s, I became interested in old things, mostly due to a neighbor’s living room being beautifully furnished with old things. Some were valuable antiques and some were simply aged pieces Betty found interesting.  I was fascinated with her finds and found them more appealing than…