When I typed the date for this blog to be posted, a flood of memories rushed up. A high school girl kneeling beside her bed pouring out her sadness, fear, and loneliness to a God who hears. She had just gotten word that her ill mother had died. She would need divine grace to deal with…
Category: Strength
Strong
I was worried. The roads were slick and my newly licensed granddaughter needed to drive her little sister to school. Husband offered to come and take little sister to school, but older granddaughter declined. Quoting from her text, “Don’t worry! I got this!” Over the course of several snowy days and lots of worry,…
Spring Is Coming!
One day last week. Me: Guess what? It’s only 18 days till Spring! Husband: What?! It’s only 18 days? It feels like 18 months. Sigh. Sometimes it does seem like a long wait till we get what we hope for. Husband answered the phone. I could hear that it was his brother’s voice on…
What I Learned from Four Weeks of the Flu
What I Learned from Four Weeks of the Flu I learned that it was such a comfort that friends and family just accepted our ups and downs without judgment. Some days we felt almost normal, then suddenly out of nowhere a fever would take us down. Or just weakness. No one belittled us. This made…
Big Cat
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…
Perseverance
One of our daughters excelled at running track in high school. Many of her competitors had longer legs than she, but she was quicker out of the blocks and had a burning desire to win. On this particular day, she was at a district meet. As usual, she was first out of the blocks and…