I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the word willing. Willing was my mother’s middle name which always seemed strange to me. For some reason, I never asked my mother, who passed when I was a teenager, why she was named Willing. But recently the word keeps coming to mind. I want to say to…
Great
Dear Husband and his family are in a great storm. My father-in-law is dying, and it’s hard to watch. The winds of distress and confusion are blowing hard over Dad. It reminds me of the story of Jonah. Not because Dad was disobedient like Jonah! But because we all face the storms of life. The…
Finished
It happened right there in the hubbub of moving day on Saturday. Many moving pieces. (Literally moving pieces!) Chairs, dressers, tables, TV, bed, kitchenware, bathroom supplies. Dear Husband, our daughter, her husband, and their daughter, along with four kind men from our church, moved my in-laws from one little apartment to another apartment in the…
Faithful God
Saturday night we spent 7.5 hours in the ER. It was hard watching dear Husband in pain, chilled to the bone. The staff was so busy that it took that long to get antibiotics and some pain killer for what they thought was just a sinus infection. By the time we got home at 1:20…