My grandma wrote newsy letters to the family on a regular basis, typed all the way out to the edges of the paper. She wrote about what the birds were doing in the front tree and about how well her garage sale went. She wrote about what was available at the food store and about…
Within a half an hour I heard it twice. First it was my man on the phone, calling me on his way home from work. How was your day? he said. Nothing spectacular. Well, it’s not always specatular, he said. Then it was my dearest friend and neighbor wondering if I had any Ro-Tel tomatoes,…
I recently tried to pray for someone and experienced an unusual feeling of hopelessness, which made me panic. I had this feeling like even if I prayed nothing would change. This was a strange faithlessness for me. My prayers continued but always with an undercurrent of, Lord, will my prayer to you really change anything…
I heard my husband’s heavy footsteps on the stairs, and I came awake from my morning napping spot on the couch downstairs. (The life of an insomniac.) I stretched and thought, Oh no, it’s awfully light out! Running to a clock I realized it was 7:40, and I had heard nary a sound from my…
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:4 NIV) See what love looks like in this man’s story. Do we love Jesus this much?
That man of mine swung home and took me out for lunch. It was just a quick bite at a fast food place, but it was a precious hour with him. Then there was the girl at the counter who looked at me with dead eyes and smiled not. Nor did she ask how she…
Yesterday I attended my first pep assembly at the Christian school where I teach. The state volleyball and soccer tournaments begin today, so we needed to make some noise. I snuck up to the top of the bleachers, out of the fray. I didn’t know what to expect, as it had been, umm, a short…
Because I talked to a young mom recently about stress, with the home schooling and the four little kids and the new puppy, I’m going to be brave enough to tell you there have been times in the last five days when I’ve thought I might fly apart from stress. I’ve been enjoying everything I’ve…
He turned in his test and about five seconds later approached me, to ask if he could change an answer he thought was wrong. I said, Sure. So he pulled out his pencil, leaned over his test that was on my desk, and I watched as he erased the correct answer and wrote in the…
Lander Junior High was 100 yards from the public indoor swimming pool, so P.E. included one quarter of swimming lessons, which I despised (except for the five minutes in the hot tub at the end of class.) I remember swimming the full length of the deep end, with the teacher walking beside me the entire…
Now that I’m working, my view of time has changed. Weekends have become precious intervals in which to rest and enjoy my family. I’ve had to purposefully try not to hurry through the week to get to the weekend, instead enjoying each work day in full. How we look at time affects everything we do….
When we first built our house we planted grass in the front yard but didn’t have grass in the backyard for a few years. Enter a beautiful summer day, four little kids, a water hose, and one mom who is distracted in the kitchen. At some point I wisely or mistakenly look out my kitchen…
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