Know God. Live Big.
“So what are you going to do with your day off?” Matt asked. “What am I really going to do or what am I thinking I’m going to do?” I replied. “Because what I’m thinking is that I’m going to spend the weekend doing a spring clean of the house.” That was our Thursday night conversation, and now it’s Saturday… Read More
Tell me what you would do, if a little boy were to plop into your window well. It has happened before. Spanish is in the basement, and little kids play right outside my classroom while they wait for parents to pick them up from school. It’s always a boy –they can’t resist the ledge and the big hole. I sat… Read More
Matt found a new show for us to watch on Netflix called Food Network Star, and don’t you think he is the most chivalrous husband, to go searching for a program he knew his wife would like? In this show, cooks compete against each other, to see who will be the next Food Network star. (Are you glad I helped… Read More
Sometimes I feel like a fairly intelligent person –able to manage a household and be a writer and teach a Spanish class. Then there was last week when the fire alarm went off at school, and I could not for the life of me remember all of the procedures. The students and I left the room, and I closed the… Read More
We thought a lot about wounds last month. A few weeks before my daughter’s wedding, my husband slipped from the bed of his truck and sliced his shin open. It was a deep cut. The doctor said it needed stitches, but because it was filled with mud from the filthy dump he didn’t want to close it up. Ten days… Read More
My husband and I tell the story differently. He claims he had just ridden his bicycle home from a friend’s house. The garage door was closed, so he propped the bike against the wall of the house. The bike slipped, so he bent over to pick it up. I claim I was talking on the phone when I heard mysterious… Read More
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 in some water, I threw… Read More