A few years ago I went to Matt’s 20th high school reunion with him. Would you like to know how excited I was to walk into a room full of a few hundred people whom he knew and I did not? I was really hoping for a stomach bug that would keep me home, but no…
Why does one woman suffer with diabetes her entire life while another is healthy? Why does one woman lose her house in a fire while another woman’s house stands? Why does one woman wait longingly to see one positive pregnancy strip while another woman drives a van full of kids? I made a discovery in…
I sat on the couch yesterday morning, with my Bible in one hand and a hot cup of coffee in the other. (Always these two things go together.) And I told God of this black hole I have inside of me that pulls for approval. I feel like I should just walk around with a…
Yesterday I learned that Oswald Chambers, author of the classic devotional writings, My Utmost for His Highest, died when he was my age. Yesterday I met a young friend in her 20s at Target, and she is suffering from chronic illness. Now she has new, severe physical ailments, and she spent the afternoon having diagnostic…
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…
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…
I lean toward gullibility, so my counselor husband is often saying to me, There could be two sides to that story, honey. And I say, What? Two sides? Oh yes. That changes things a bit. Come to find out, there are two views on every issue. Well, I was making the seven-hour drive from Lander,…
Last night I strolled my old college campus with Matt –my hand in his warm, strong one. It had been 13 years since I visited here, and I wasn’t prepared for how I would feel. We stopped at points along the way, remembering. Here is where I broke up with Matt for trying to hold…
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