"He's solid rock under my feet, breathing room for my soul" Psalm 62:1-2 (MSG).
“How was your day?” It’s my husband’s first question to me at the end of his work day every single evening. This answer used to be easier. How was my day? Mostly that depended on work. How much I accomplished, how difficult the tasks were, how successful I was, how many goals I’d met, and how […]
We had given them instructions. While I was away all day at a conference in Richmond, Dad was on duty for swim lessons and a friend’s birthday party and everything in between. So, I prepped my daughters in advance with specific instructions because you have to go through the bathrooms at the gym in order […]
My youngest waltzed out of the pizza place carrying her own personal-sized cheese pizza like a treasure. It started last fall when we mapped out the activity schedule for the year. One night a week we rush from school, to ballet, to church, leaving exactly 30 minutes to scarf dinner in the car. I searched […]
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17 Unsweetened iced tea. That’s what the quiz said my personality resembled. Not sweet tea or peach tea or even a little wild raspberry tea or health-conscious green tea. Unsweetened iced tea, as in […]
One of our cats ran away last week for a 3o-hour trek into the woods. Our other cat stayed home. In sympathy, my daughters talked about our large black cat missing his smaller orange “brother.” He meowed and we thought it was a meow of sadness. My three-year-old showed him extra affection out of concern […]
It looked like nothing more than a dent in the hood of the car, a cosmetic annoyance perhaps, but not worth paying the deductible on the car insurance to fix. Deer are so frighteningly erratic and unpredictable. Some people marvel at their beauty, grazing along the roadside. I, however, slow down to a crawl and […]
“I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2b NIV). “I don’t always obey Mom and Dad, but I do obey God.” It made sense to her six-year-old mind. Well, sure I might not obey my parents, but at least I’ve got the God-thing covered. […]
Long ago and far away in my teen years, before the advent of all this newfangled technology, I spent the week or so before family road trips performing one of our favorite traditions: recording our own travel tapes. Those were the days (am I so old already?) before MP3 players, iPods and all digital music. […]
She screamed almost the entire way home from church. It was a shock to me. After church ended, my preschooler bounced out of the nursery cheerful and excited. We had just marched in the town Christmas parade the day before, so she practiced her “parade wave” all the way down the halls of the church, […]
We had made a mess. So far, my daughter’s work at sewing class had impressed me. She was getting into the groove of things: set the needle, angle the cloth, put down the foot, press the pedal, sew forward, backward and forward again, always guiding the material with her hands without getting her fingers sewn. […]
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