Choosing to Rest
Ever feel overwhelemed by the busyness of life... especially around Christmas? [...]
Questions:
September 23, 2019 Questions I love how children ask questions. Sometimes their questions make you go search something. Like “what is a rainbow?” or “why are leaves green?” Sometimes their questions mirror your own; but those you won’t speak. You know, questions that your doubting mind asks but your thinking [...]
Fighting Failure
July 12, 2019 Fighting Failure It’s when your mind tells you stuff that isn’t what God wants you to hear, but the logical part of you says, “yes, that’s right,” so you agree and allow the spirit of failure to permeate your day. I know in my heart that anything [...]
Loss and Love
June 23, 2019 Loss and Love Standing excitedly on the screened porch steps, 6 children stand about squirming, giggling, jumping, and otherwise trying to pitifully contain their excitement. “What is it, Daddy!” chorus a half-dozen voices. Daddy pulls out a stork – plain, white, six-foot-tall wooden stork. “No, Daddy! It [...]
Watching & Analyzing
Watching & Analyzing April 27, 2019 I’ve always been a watcher. I watch the world around me and (most of the time) analyze it. I look at a beautiful blue sky and my mind says “wow, how pretty,” and quickly follows with “it won’t rain for the next few hours.” [...]
Minuit’s Story
This story of Minuit, the Dwarf Holland Lop bunny who became Kimberly’s best gift ever, and how Kimberly fell in love with her “snuggle bunny” gifted by her big sisters! [...]
The Fallen
May 27, 2018 “The Fallen” Sometimes art inspires me. Sometimes it’s hard to visualize large numbers. These memorials do an excellent job. I’ve heard of the origin of Decoration Day (Memorial Day) and often thought about the hearts of the women decorating the graves of fallen soldiers during the War [...]
Understanding and Choosing Forgiveness
April 23, 2018 Understanding and Choosing Forgiveness Sometimes things make us irritated. Loss, waste, and destruction of life are hot spots for me. We have livestock. Honestly, I can shrug off an owl or hawk picking off a young chicken. I can understand the predators are getting food and my [...]
What to Say?
October 20, 2017 What to Say? It doesn’t matter how you get the message. A man in uniform, a hospital doctor, a call from their job, a letter from a mission council: it doesn’t matter the messenger, when you hear “we regret to inform you…” with the universal calm sadness [...]