I took on a new piano student yesterday. He’s nine years old, and watching his feet swing from the piano bench made me happy. He wasn’t so sure about this whole piano lesson thing, but his mom urged him to give it a try. I went to Sweet Peaks Ice Cream and bought him a…
Someone may have to shampoo my hair for me today, because I spent a long time bent over in the garden yesterday, weeding rows of potatoes and spinach. My arms and shoulders are sore. Gardening makes Tim Keller’s words, in Counterfeit Gods, more meaningful to me today: When you “pull your emotions up by the roots,”…
Like a woman cooking a large family meal, I have a pot on every burner right now. Front right is the woman who has given up on her husband. Back right is the child still going the wrong direction. Front left is the young woman who has given up on her family. Back left is the woman who…
My daughter brought home a tomato plant from the nursery where she works, and I thought it would be a great idea to go plant it at her grandma’s house while she’s out of town. Hopefully there will be ripe tomatoes greeting her when she returns from Arizona. We found a pot at my mother-in-law’s,…
Yesterday was the first sunny day after a week of rain, so I put on walking shoes and took a slow, Sunday morning walk around the neighborhood. The wind was blowing a bit, and as I rounded a corner I could hear a flag flapping in the breeze. My eyes were drawn to the American…
Sometimes there is a richness in someone that forces us to examine our own character. May we strive to love God and love people the way this man has with his life.
My dad was doing a tour of duty in Vietnam when I was a baby. He saw unspeakable horrors there. Because of this experience, my dad was obsessed with war. In our living room we had a Time full-volume pictorial set on WWII. We watched war movies and documentaries about emaciated Jews in concentration camps…
The phone range by my bedside at 5:30 yesterday morning –my husband calling from Tucson, Arizona. He informed me his uncle had passed away in the night. I hung up the phone, and grief pushed the air out of my lungs. It was only six months ago that my preacher husband said the memorial words…
I have been reading the Bible through and am nearing the end of the chronicles of the kings. I have whiplash. Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord. Jehoram did evil in the eyes of the Lord. Ahaziah did evil in the eyes of the Lord. Joash did what…
A few nights ago, my daughter introduced me to a blog that is created by a mom and photographer. Her site is so beautiful that I could not stop looking at it. I finally closed the computer and burst into tears. My whole family turned and look at me. (I must say they were unfazed by…
Yesterday I was pathetically unmotivated to do anything in my house, but it was a mess. So I prayed, Lord, will you help me get up the energy to run the vacuum in the bedroom? He did help. (I not only vacuumed but dusted the whole bedroom, loaded the dishwasher, did two loads of laundry…
Happy Father’s Day! Here is to the man who made us listen to the Sons of the Pioneers eight-track all the way from Wyoming to Mount Rushmore on one summer vacation. Love you, Daddy Chris
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