She might have been slightly beyond exhaustion on Saturday morning, after her first two weeks of going back to work and first two days of teaching, when she cracked open the bedroom door and fell weeping into his arms. Can’t sob do sob all sob of this. Head buried in his strong, warm shoulder. He…
This post is a shout-out to my precious grandma friend who has been in rehab for more days than she can count. Diabetic and with recent leg amputation and congestive heart failure, your nights have lasted for what seem like 36 hours, as you try to catch your breath and get comfortable in bed. You told…
This is what it means to serve God. He is the center and has invited us to join in his work. If we play our part along with him, it is beautiful. “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians…
Dear Church, A decade ago, when you called my husband to be one of your pastors, I felt worried about my kids. Pastors’ kids tend to go bad. I was worried you might treat my kids differently because of their position, maybe set expectations high. And you have. You have loved them more and have…
I’m so stinkin’ tired. I started teaching a Bible study tonight (which I planned before I knew I was getting a job as a Spanish teacher), and tomorrow’s the first day of school, so I’ve been furiously making preparations for that. I might not brush my teeth before I go to bed tonight. At our…
Here is the sequence of events: My heartfelt prayer that God will help me love and show great care for my new Spanish students. Looking in the bathroom mirror the night before the school open house, when I will meet all of these students for the first time. Seeing humongous zit on chin. Horror. The…
My son just started school again, and this I know about him –his favorite subject will be based on whatever teacher is the most fun. If a teacher is boring and fails to have a sense of humor, then Caleb will not like that class, regardless of the content. “Fun” is his simple sorting tool….
It’s a little scary being the new girl, walking into a private school full of teachers and administrators and secretaries and maintenance men. They’ve been laboring here long, and I’ve only put in one week. Who will I be in this place? I tidy the book shelves and make a nifty bulletin board. Hang a…
I don’t know what I love most about this -the fact that he’s fielding questions in prison, his passion for Jesus and the Bible, his ability to quote Scripture off the cuff… It’s 30 minutes well spent.
I dropped him off to head out to camp, but there were a lot of people around, so it had to be just a quick, Love ya. See ya tomorrow. My phone rang an hour later. That wasn’t a very good goodbye, he said. No, it wasn’t. I love you, he said, nice ‘n slow….
I heard all of these stories in one day: One young child with seizures. One woman up in the night with congestive heart failure. Trying to breathe. One mom missing an important birthday party and three days of work because of dreadful pink eye. One second-cousin with a broken foot, missing the first day of…
I was reading National Geographic, and staring at me from the page was Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a 42-year-old from Austria and “the first woman in history to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-plus-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen.” Shall I mention that I was winded after climbing the three flights of stairs to my daughter’s dorm room…
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