Margaret Montreuil

Measure your life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth For love’s strength standeth in love’s sacrifice And whosoever suffereth most hath most to give. –Hudson Taylor God has the most to give, has sacrificed the most, and loves the most. I just returned from a…

I am often enthralled by the ideas presented by mystical theologians. John Crowder writes like one in The Ecstasy of Loving God, a book I just came across the other day. What he says, and he quotes ancient and modern Christian mystics throughout the book, is that we are designed for bliss. Here’s what Bernard of Clairvaux…

It’s funny, my life is in major flux, including the mystery about where I should call “home” and I am back to living day by day in financial survival mode without a job, and the amazing thing … I haven’t laughed more in years.  Joy surrounds me. Love holds me. Really, all is good with…

A couple of nights ago I attended a Christmas concert at Vision of Glory Lutheran Church in Plymouth, MN. One of the vocalists sang the beautiful song “Mary Did You Know?” It is my favorite Christmas song by far. Every time I hear it I am deeply moved by the reality of the words. Here…

As you can see from the FOLLOW video located at this website http://www.elevationchurch.org , something quite extraordinary is going on at Elevation Church in Charlotte. I’m seeing that more each week. My daughter, age 28, had been through life-threatening lows lately and recently gave the direction of her life to Jesus. She found this rather “new”…

For the last month I’ve stepped into another unwanted transition. It isn’t the first time I’ve been in survival mode within five years, but this might be the bleakest. Things could be worse, of course, so I count my blessings, but not without questioning the Lord in my prayer times. Hmm…I’ve wondered, for example, why I’m encountering what begins as particularly well-suited…

On May 20th, one of my adult children asked me what I thought about news-making Christians who thought they’d be the next day ”raptured” … which is to say they’d be “swept up and away and into the clouds of heaven, caught up in the air with Jesus.” I told him I thought nothing of it since Jesus himself had said,…

I confess — I haven’t felt like writing a thing and have been waiting many weeks to be inspired enough to write a decent blog post. I’ve been in a spiritual desert. You know, when life gets hard, troubles mount, you feel like you can’t bear for another day the life-draining job and crashing family issues. Worse, you barely even think about God,  He’s distant…

I spent a few months writing the sequel to God in Sandals last year, just after my 4th visit to Israel. Oh, it was all in God’s plan that I’d write again….little did I know when I made the plans for my trip to those historical, sacred places I described in the book. I left Israel…