Know God. Live Big.
We were watching a competition show on TV last night, and one of the judges tried to encourage a young contestant by telling him, “Remember: You’re enough. You’ve always been enough.” And I lit up. I’m so mad right now just thinking about it that I can feel my pulse rate going up. Do you realize there are a whole… Read More
What was I doing a few days ago, you ask? Oh, you know –sharpening pencils, tweaking lesson plans, dusting my classroom, and taking a course in how to stop an active shooter. Normal teacher stuff. In college I took a class on how to use a copy machine and a laminator, but I wonder if I would have continued with… Read More
Matt told me to write this blog post. “Tell them about when I leave for India on Saturday and how you’re going to be happy and okay.” Thirteen days, you guys. He’s going to be on the other side of the planet for 13 days, preaching and teaching the Bible and doing some counseling among the Wagori people there. But… Read More
The twist cone is my favorite. I would never order plain vanilla, but it’s a nice compliment to chocolate. These days I’m thinking about how sorrow and joy squeeze out of the same spigot and come served to us always intertwined. Last week my son gave a sparkly to his girl, and now my husband and I are whispering joyfully… Read More
There are these cool things called “podcasts” that I just discovered. (Sometimes if you’re old you come into things a day late.) I was listening to an And Sons Magazine podcast, and they were talking about what we say when we run into someone we haven’t seen for a while and that person asks what’s up in our lives. We… Read More
I had been calling out to the Lord for several days, telling him I felt overwhelmed by life and saying, “I can’t do all of this.” That was when I opened my email, to find a request from the children’s director. Would I be willing to teach the missions segment of Vacation Bible School? My response was something like, “Ha!”… Read More
Maybe if blogs had scent, then you could have smelled how hard I worked on Saturday. The landscaping pavers that circled my mother-in-law’s tree had slowly shifted uneven with time, so I determined to pull them all out, level the ground with sand, and put them back. Backbreaking but not all that complicated. I finished replacing the last stone, only… Read More
Experience told me they would balk at the assignment, so I rehearsed a pep talk that would bat away their complaints. “Listen, guys,” I said. “I can translate this list of verbs in 33 seconds. I’m asking you to be able to do the same in less than 60 seconds. You can do this. All you need is the knowledge,… Read More
About 10 minutes from my childhood home in Wyoming, you’ll find Sinks Canyon State Park, at the base of the Wind River Mountains. The locals call it “the sinks,” which is actually the name of a unique geological formation (I plagiarized that wording from the park website) where the raging waters of the Popo Agie River vanish underground. I don’t… Read More
I could tell, as soon as I pulled up to the gas station, that she was distraught and feeling completely hopeless. She looked like I did that night I found a $300.00 error in the checkbook, not in our favor, and Matt came home and found me curled up in a fetal position on the living room floor. She was… Read More
