Margaret Heaton

Next time you are relaxing in your living room or standing in your kitchen, just look up and ask yourself: What is holding up my roof? Unless you are married to a construction man like I am, or you have ever walked through a building project while it was still in progress, you may never stop to think about the structure above your ceiling. But believe me when I say, it is what is unseen above the ceiling and beneath the roof that matters most. Whether you live in a single-family home, an...

As we travel in ministry, we often have the opportunity to stay in bedrooms belonging to friends we’ve just met. We stay in motel rooms. We stay in cabins at camps where we’ve helped build. During one six-month stretch, I counted seventeen different beds we had slept in—each with a bathroom we had to search for in the middle of the night.

He knew the exact moment to hit the gas pedal—throwing me back into my seat while the car spun into a donut that felt like it would never end. It was an adrenaline rush, for sure. But that was over fifty years ago. Today, burnout has taken on a very different meaning.