Christian Counseling & Educational Services

Last September one more counselor joined our staff to complete our team. Her name is Cindi Wilmot and she is a delightful addition to our work and ministry. Cindi is a wife, and a mother to six children. You can read more about her at our staff page. Here’s a devotional she wrote just for you, our weekly readers.

My daughter’s friend, Christian, sat in the back of the van with our kids, laughing delightedly and making everyone around him smile and chuckle with his nine-year-old humor and energy. “This is what it would be like if the Lord had spared our son”, I thought wistfully.

He was a scruffy looking fellow sitting in his wheelchair near the exit at the grocery store. Grey hair poked out in all directions underneath his tilted baseball cap. The thing I noticed most about him, however, was his look of discouragement and disappointment. Then I saw the lottery tickets in his hand. He looked down at them and shook his head sadly. Obviously his expectation of winning had been dashed, and he went from hope to despair with just the swipe of a coin over that little silver patch on his ticket. My heart went out to him partly because of his physical condition, partly because of his apparent financial hardship, but most of all because his hope rested on the shaky ground of chance and lottery tickets.

“Pardon me.�? You know the words. You’ve said them before when you bumped into someone or did something that was offensive to another person. You know you’re guilty of something, and you’re asking to be excused from that guilt.