On Monday morning I woke up feeling much better after almost two weeks of flu. Husband had left to volunteer at a food pantry so I decided to take a walk in the snowy woods behind our house. It was before eight o’clock in the morning and I was reveling in walking alone in a winter…
Category: Mind
This Train Is Headed for Glory
This week Husband and I have had the flu. We’ve had aches, pains and fevers. Poor Husband joked about the sharp pain in his shins saying there was a rat with a rasp filing his shins! We were miserable together with sinus headaches, upset stomachs and heartburn (at least we both lost weight, yay!). My…
Self
Husband and I were excited to give a greeting and an update from a mutual friend to an acquaintance of ours. We enthusiastically launched into the news from our mutual friend, but our acquaintance didn’t fully engage. We were disappointed when she looked past our faces and over our shoulders to what was going on…
Hari Paskah
It was Passover/Easter in the Spring of 1982 in Bandung, Java, Indonesia. We had been living in this bustling Asian city of 6 million since the first of the year in order to attend language and culture training. Now it was a holiday and we decided to celebrate with some of our new friends. We…
Healthy Thinking
Husband’s close relative gave birth to conjoined twins. One baby died a month later after the separation surgery. The other died less than four years later after suffering multiple health issues and surgeries. Yet the grieving mother put herself in the hands of her loving heavenly Father and was enabled to move forward, even having…