When we visit my parents there are two priority destinations. First is to the M&M jar, always stocked with season-specific colors. (Coming soon is red white and blue.) Second is to the utility room where there will be thirty books -big picture ones for my little nieces and stacks of hand-picked novels for everyone else. …
I recently read a note written by a young man who left his cozy church family and went out into the big wide world. There he has discovered many other views about spirituality. Now he realizes he was “narrow-minded” when he lived here, and he has thrown out his small-town views of God. I once…
When I was growing up, I sang in church because that’s what we did in church. Please turn in your hymnal to page 325, and let’s sing the first, second, and fourth stanzas. (That’s how the Baptists did it back then.) But several years ago God put it on my heart to go to Africa…
I remember when my daughter started soccer in her early grade school years. For all of her short little life we had been telling her, Don’t be selfish, Share with others, always be kind. Then she was on the soccer field, and we were screaming, Take the ball! Push past her! Don’t let her get…
I fell in love with my husband again yesterday. My daughter had a scheduled appointment for all four wisdom teeth to be removed at 7:30 yesterday morning, and every time I thought about it I got woozy. (My husband said “woozy” was an onomatopoeia –every time I said it I sounded and looked the part.)…
I’ve been unhappy this week. Because I’m so tired of when people say they know Jesus but they’re not happy –not just having-a-bad-day unhappy but having-a-bad-life unhappy. Like every time I see them or talk to them I can expect them to be unhappy. And I think, How can you say you know Jesus but…
My dad left a big chunk of his hearing acuity in Vietnam, so the VA just bought him some genius hearing aids with Bluetooth technology. When the phone rings dad can press a button and listen through his hearing aids. He can even program the TV to come through his hearing aids. He is now…
Here’s how it went yesterday. I had a little weep as I typed my last medical transcription report. Job of 11 years over. Had a little weep as my husband asked me about it later in the morning. Had a little weep after he went to work. Just kind of sad to lose a job…
I chose a Kindle as a birthday gift recently, and my husband said I HAD to get the Kindle Fire HD. If I was paying that much, why not go a little more for high definition? It’s all about pixels. The more pixels the better quality the picture. Isaiah says, “I saw the Lord seated…
I recently made the 12-hour drive, by myself, to visit my parents in Wyoming. That’s 24 hours alone in the car, and I determined ahead of time that I was going to use it as a time of devotion to the Lord. I downloaded a devotional audiobook onto my Kindle and borrowed a few worship…
I drove down the hill in Cody, Wyoming and saw a shocking sight. In front of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center were two fire trucks, an ambulance, three police cars, and a swarm of emergency personnel. I imagined that the museum must be on fire, or maybe there was a bomb situation, or maybe some…
Would you humor me with a trip back to the 80’s? Because there’s a song that has imprinted powerful words in my mind. The words are true. I know this because I’ve tried them out many times in my life. Please listen? Today is Valentine’s day, a cruel holiday that shouts, “YOU’RE ALONE!” to every…
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