Weekend Rerun: Blessings in Sticky Keys

Originally posted on June 10, 2011 “For You make him to be blessed and a blessing forever; You make him exceedingly glad with the joy of Your presence.” Psalm 21: 6 I have a piano. I have young children. I’m trusting you can fill in blanks, use your imagination, put two and two together and […]

Weekend Walk: 12/17/2011–Christmas devotional and memory verse

Mary. She’s been on my mind this week as I wrap presents, plan to see The Nutcracker, listen to Christmas tunes, bake cookies and prepare fruit trays for class Christmas parties. She’s all wrapped up in the middle of this Christmas story. I’ve been thinking about her even more when I complain to God about […]

Weekend Walk: 10/08/2011

Hiding the Word: Decisions, decisions.  It seems like I’m making so many of them lately.  Big ones with significant impact.  Little ones about my daughters taking ballet.  Yet, somehow they are all enough to send me to my knees, searching for God’s will and wisdom. I’m comforted by the fact that if I mis-step, the […]

Live Long and Forget or Prosper

Not long ago, I wrote these words in a message to a friend, “Middle school was an absolute nightmare for me.” Oh, it so was.  I had great friends; it wasn’t peer pressure or mean girls that made it so miserable.  Yet, those were difficult years for lots of reasons all piled together forming one […]

Blessings in Sticky Keys

“For You make him to be blessed and a blessing forever; You make him exceedingly glad with the joy of Your presence.” Psalm 21: 6 I have a piano. I have young children. I’m trusting you can fill in blanks, use your imagination, put two and two together and figure out what all that means. […]

What about me?

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. Jeremiah 31:3 Last week, I needed to emphasize a life lesson and a character issue with my oldest daughter.  Leaning in close to her, nose to nose, I cradled her chin […]

Nothing Too Difficult

“Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised“ Genesis 21: 1 (NIV) Last week, I stood in the checkout line at the grocery store with a week’s worth of food for my family all lined up on the conveyor belt.  I assured […]

God’s Indescribable Gift

“He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things” Psalm 107:9, NIV There’s that moment on every Antiques Roadshow when the appraiser pushes his glasses back on his nose and leans in with excitement.  “So, as to value . . .” he starts.  And the item’s owner looks up with humble and cautious […]

A Matter of God

“We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you” 2 Chronicles 20:12, NIV I am a contest-enterer, but only very rarely a contest-winner.  About one-and-a-half years ago, I participated in the adult summer reading program at our local library.  Every month that I read some books (only one of my most […]

Strings Tied Around My Finger

I had a crisis moment the other night.  When I was reading the Bible, it reminded me of something I had read and copied into my journal a few years ago.  So, I pulled out my recent journals and the one I needed was missing. This might not seem huge to you, but it was […]