Embracing the Interruptions
“We interrupt this evenings program to bring you this breaking news…” “Mom, I just threw up in my bed.” So, do you know anything about interruptions? (We each chuckle.) They can be so irritating and get a person so sidetracked, can’t they? In my mind I often think, “I have a list of important [...]
Rejoice When?
It’s difficult to miss a theme running through Philippians. “I always pray with joy”, “because of this I rejoice”, “I will continue to rejoice”, “joy in the faith”, “make my joy complete”, “be glad and rejoice with me”, “rejoice in the Lord”… well, you get the point! Philippians 4 caps it off with words to [...]
Perennial Grace
Every spring when I see the perennial flowers bud in such vivid color against the bleak backdrop of my still overgrown flower bed I am swept with the realization that I just don’t deserve them. What have I done for these little gems of beauty over the past winter months? Their internal clocks seem to [...]
27 in 2011
How about reading through the New Testament in 2011? So? How about it? Tired of making bunches of resolutions that aren’t kept or just not making any at all? Join with a large group of people that are resolving to read the New Testament in a year. There are 27 books in the New Testament so [...]
Could You Give Me a Light?
Have you ever awakened completely disoriented and wondered where you were? Last night I slept in a guest room as I have a cough and didn’t want to wake up my husband. It is a basement room and it’s like a cave down there, very little light comes in. I awakened early and my eyes [...]
Creatively Grateful
Do you remember when the Wizard of Oz movie shifted from black and white to color? The invention of color cinematography brought us from the tornado in Kansas to the beautiful land of Oz and lit up the screen with vividly colored images. Can you imagine seeing the munchkins or Emerald City in black and [...]
A Thought to Grow On
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Fruit Bearing
It doesn’t get any better than sand hill plum jelly, or at least Calvin and many of my family believe that to be true. Calvin watches the sand hill plum bushes that grow alongside the road near our home and studies their progress like most guys study football. In the spring I hear how the [...]
A Gift
Two years ago I received a gift. It didn’t look like a gift at first because it came wrapped in the trauma of CPR, ambulance and ER staff, intensive care, ventilators and waiting rooms. It was stuffed with the tissue paper padding of prayer, friends and family, competent doctors and practical helps at home and [...]
The Jubilee Year!
On August 11th I turned 50 years old. I’m a half century old! I remember reading a t-shirt once that said, “50′s not old if you’re a tree”. And now I’m reading, “50 is the young person’s old and the old person’s young”. How true. The mannequin, Madge, made it to my birthday party- she [...]
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