Category Archives: faith!
Summary of a Tuesday
Yesterday was one of those days…deep talks, lasting worries, searching for solutions. And that was just over lunch. The rest of the day was “fraught” with “incidences” ~ BUT: We …
Limbo does not exist
Looks like we might have one more Happy Birthday Jesus celebration here. Yes, I am crying in the 2009 version. Shut up. Since we got married, we’ve been saying, We’re …
Everybody ought to go to Sunday School…
No, seriously. My love for Sunday School has never waned. As a kid, I enjoyed the felt boards and the take-home papers and the stories. (Fast forward through my adolescence, …
The Trump Card
Our road trip took us all over the place, somewhat geographically, and for me, emotionally. We saw so many friends & relatives, made some new connections, experienced new places and …
Step Aside
Obedience to God is hard. It requires courage. It requires faith. It requires that we look past what we want, or think we want, and consider what is best for …
Days of reckoning
Post-September 11, 2001, Martina McBride’s stunning song about domestic violence was used with a different, just as chilling and significant meaning: Days of reckoning are not fun. On September 11, …
Labor Day, Leonardo, and the power of words
Tonight on the street we passed a church marquee that said, “On Labor Day, we pray for those seeking jobs.” Now, we were wizzing by on the motorcycle, but we …
On the side of the road
I am not a fearful person. But I have a really, really vivid imagination. Sunday, on our 4th day of driving (Illinois to Virginia to Ohio to Illinois), Rod finally …
Broken roads and second chance weddings
There’s no shame in a second chance – a nugget of beautiful, redemptive wisdom I wish I had known on my own wedding day. ‘tis ok, though. I knew it …
Be it unto me
Luke 4: 38And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. I heard that verse in a devotion this morning that I …
short bursts of mayhem
