When encroaching blindness took her music teaching career away, Dene Ward turned her attention to writing. What began as e-mail devotions to some friends grew into a list of hundreds of subscribers. Forwards and re-postings likely increased her readership to the thousands. Due to this positive response, 366 of those devotions have been assembled to form this daily devotional. Follow her through a year of camping, bird-watching, medical procedures, piano lessons, memories, and more as she uses daily life as a springboard to thought provoking and character challenging messages of endurance and...

Cooking has always been a part of Dene Wards life. She grew up in a house where they were always feeding someone and she followed that same path as a wife and mother. On the table, she has always offered a nourishing meal; she now offers this collection to feed your souls, lessons from her hearth to your heart.

Dene Ward and her husband Keith have gardened for nearly 40 years, which has shown her why God's prophets and preachers, including Jesus, used so many references to plants and planting-it's only natural. Join her for a walk in the garden with God.

Despite the opinion of today's woman, who believes that being a wife is so simple she must have something real to do with her life, it is not that easy. Too often culture has a way of sneaking into our thinking, and whereas the Scriptures suit all cultures, not all cultures suit the Scriptures. Dene Ward has taken ten metaphors the Bible uses to describe a wife, and, as she always does, shown how those can be used in a practical way to make ourselves into the ideal helper God intended from the beginning. This book can be used as a gift for a new bride, an individual study guide for any wife,...