Guest Author - Diana Pederson

Barbara Cawthorne Crafton. Some Things You Just have to Live With: Musings on Middle Age. Morehouse Publishing. 2003.

This is a fun little book of just three chapters is most understandable by the over 50 crowd. Crafton covers everything from dealing with depression too coping with a health crisis. Her style of writing makes it fun to read as we relate to what she writes about! Do you need a stocking stuffer for your girlfriend, wife, sister or best female friend? This will work just fine.

Stewart Custer. God’s Promises: New Every Day. BJU Press. 2004.

This devotional is outstanding for one reason: it discusses scripture and doesn’t just share a sweet story showing some aspect of faith followed by a scripture and possibly a short prayer. If you use this book in the morning or evening, you’ll either begin or end your day with a short Bible study. In my opinion, this is one of the better devotionals I’ve read or used recently.

Judy Gann. The God of All Comfort: Devotions of hope for those who chronically suffer. Living Ink Books. 2005.

Only someone who has lived with chronic illness could have written this wonderful devotional. It clearly points those who suffer to God. I find the devotionals uplifting and thought provoking at the same time. Do you know someone living with a chronic illness or perhaps in chronic pain? Put this book in their stocking this Christmas. It’s guaranteed to lift their spirits while pointing them to the Savior.