It is an annual agreement with my mother-in-law. She will feed me if I will hand out candy to the over 100 children who will trick-or-treat at her door. Will work for food. So the doorbell rang, and I grabbed the metal bowl filled with everything chocolate. A herd of children was at the door,…
I was alone in the car, driving north on Helena Flats Road years ago, when I first entertained the thought of ditching God. I was disenchanted with what he was allowing to happen in my life, and I wasn’t too reserved to tell him so. I mentally packed my bags. You don’t care about me!…
At 11:30 the teenagers filled the hotel room next to mine, and it seemed only a thin shower curtain hung between me and their raucous chatter and laughter. I felt like a crotchety old lady who wanted to go bang on their door with my cane. You young people keep it down! But I took…
So you know how I’ve been overwhelmed and stressed and not sleeping, with this new job prep and all? Well, that makes me want to hurt people. Hurting people did not make the fruits list. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22-23 NIV) I…
My daughter and I were having a lovely chat in the car, until I heard yelling from behind me. Our windows were rolled up, but I could hear a man screaming. When I looked in my rear-view there was a distinguished looking man, probably in his 50s, jabbing his finger out his window and cursing the…
Honey, there’s something on your leg. It was a tic. On a beautiful spring day, we set out with friends for a casual walk along a railroad grade. When I got up closer to him I saw it was tics. Plural. Lots of tics all over our legs. We looked down, and they were like…
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