By Susan Shanklin When I was growing up as a child in Levittown, Pennsylvania, Easter was my very favorite holiday. It would all start on Palm Sunday, or the Hosanna parade to me. It was in Sunday school that I … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin I think it’s closer to spring than it really is. I was telling my 10-year-old granddaughter that I thrifted a bouquet of faux daisies for a wall vase on my outdoor shed, for springtime. She said, “You … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin Whenever it’s newsletter time, and I need to write the back page [for our print newsletter], it’s usually true confessions. Laying my attitudes, successes, and failures out for the world to see. I’m pretty much an open … Read more>>>
Editor’s Note: Altar calls have come into disuse and in some cases disparagement in some circles, but we know that altar calls have been an effective tool for reaching people for Christ for centuries. Ministers from the prophet Isaiah to … Read more>>>
I have something on my heart that I have been meaning to say for a long time. Thank you, partners! Thank you, friends! I know what it’s like to support and partner with other ministries myself. I do so … Read more>>>
We celebrated Father’s Day yesterday at my oldest daughter’s house. Heidi lives just four miles from us in Marine on St. Croix, a quaint historic village nestled in the hills next to the St. Croix River. Four years ago, when … Read more>>>
Can you believe it! It’s Maaaaaay! Almost half of a year has gone by and where am I? How much I haven’t got accomplished. How many inspiring ideas have not come to fruition? Did I just pander away the winter downtime, … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin Goodness, it’s the end of February, and you are reading this in March! St. Patrick’s Day will be soon, then daylight saving time, which is always a joy, and then comes Palm Sunday and Easter. Where does … Read more>>>
This article was published in the January 2024 issue of Healing for the Nations, the monthly publication Tom Shanklin Ministries. This issue celebrated 40 years of ministry from 1993-2023. By Susan Shanklin Since we are celebrating 40 years of ministry, … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin As many of you know, Tom and I moved from a farm site in Mankato, Minnesota, full of lilacs and flowering perennials with gardens that were started from scratch to, well, would you say, a desert of … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin “My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber.” (Psalms 121:2-3, AMP15) Goodness, that is sweet water to remember in … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin There is a saying, “Out with the old, in with the new.” Kind of harsh for us grayheads. People sometimes don’t see the value of old things. Some people have to have the new and fastest on … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin Tom and I live in the tiny little village of Scandia, Minnesota, nestled in rolling hills and not far from the St. Croix River. So scenic. So refreshing for one’s soul, no matter the time or season … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin I don’t know about you, but I’m not too keen on what they call New Year’s resolutions. Oh, I guess when I was younger and watching Dick Clark on black and white TV, I thought of silly … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin Sometimes I feel like Sarah of the Old Testament. I feel like the shriveled, dried-up old lady waiting for her promise. Every day, she feels her empty belly and looks at her old, very old, shriveled, dried-up … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin Yikes, it’s August. The tall green corn around here is tasseling soft tan tones. The chubby tomatoes are rippening, and the zucchini are turning into mini-tugboats. I need to suck in every twinkle of sunshine, for leaves … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin Hello victorious, overcoming saints of the Most High! I bet you make it! If God is for you, WHO can be against you? Take a deep breath and make your nostrils swell with some fresh oxygen. Stand … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin I was vacuuming up construction dust the other day for the umpteenth time, and I was thinking about how we, people, should be a vacuum. We should be sucking up everything GOOD that life has to offer. … Read more>>>
By Susan Shanklin Daniel Boone and Lewis and Clark come to mind. Adventurers and explorers. Maybe Moses and Caleb. Tom and Susan spied the northern Minnesota landscape and staked a claim in Scandia, Minnesota! We loaded up our wagons and … Read more>>>
We have a friend who was in critical condition with Covid-19. He had one leg in heaven. He needed more high tech care and had to be airlifted to a larger hospital and was put on a ventilator. He was … Read more>>>
