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…
The favorite Tazo tea in our cupboard is “calm”. I guess if you steep the teabag long enough it soothes your very soul? I was just reading about John and Charles Wesley who played huge roles in the first American Great Spiritual Awakening. They were traveling from Europe to America when a huge storm came…
I annoyed my little Awana girls. They gathered around me to say their Bible memory verses last night. I always make them explain what the verse means and talk about how we should obey it or believe it. This makes them nuts, because really they just want to say it as fast as they can…
In the stillness of the early morning, with snow gently falling, I tenderly laid my Bible in front of the advent candles and reached for the matches. Lighting candle one and candle two with great reverence, I prepared to meditate on a verse of Scripture and spend some moments in prayer. After dousing the match…
At 8:00 I arrived at the court house, by invitation of friends who were completing the adoption of two children. The last time I was in that room it was to watch a divorce finalize. Everything broken walks in those doors. How wearisome it must be to put on the robe and sit behind the…
$400 later and she has a stack of books for her first semester of college. As a book nerd I pick up the stack of textbooks and flip through them, resisting the urge to open them up and stick my nose in the binding. New book smell. Why don’t they make that as a car…
The water ran stone cold from the faucet. My daughter couldn’t fill the bathtub, and I couldn’t do the dishes. (A disappointment for one –a cause of celebration for the other.) “I bet the pilot light is out,” said Matt. He laid down on the cement by the hot water heater. “Yup. The pilot is…
I was a choir nerd in high school. You know what I mean. I lived in my world, and the jocks lived in theirs -never the two shall meet. Then a cheerleader joined choir, and we got to know each other. It was the Friday of a big football game, and the whole school filed…
My son has been playing a city-building game on his iPod. He was bragging last night that he used dynamite to blow a hole in the ground, and then he filled the entire base of the city with trampolines. (I think this child needs more chores to do.) He proudly showed me how he was…
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