The Battle

I’ve been putting off completing a big (Big) project for seven months.  I got started at the beginning of the pandemic stay at home order.  But because it didn’t have a deadline, other things pushed it out.  I worked on it in fits and starts.  Several weeks ago, I gathered my small courage and dove…

Happy Giving

It was my birthday recently.  I enjoyed several special days with family and friends.  People who love me took time to come over and just be with Husband and me on our patio.  We ate and talked.  Our adult kids and grandchildren, and special friends made time to be together.  One daughter and her daughter…

Promise Keeper

Ever get frustrated with yourself?  Ha!  Of course!  Every one of us has beat ourselves up for messing up.  It may be big things that were immoral, or destructive.  Or it may be something small, but important we forgot to do.  Just this morning I realized I hadn’t checked in on someone I love who…

Stepping Up

When I was about five years old my mother and I moved in with my recently widowed grandmother.  About two years later my mother was able to afford her own apartment.  After that, I stayed with my grandmother after school and during the Summers while my mother worked long hours.  My grandmother was in her…

Hope

 We can’t put our hope in things getting better.  They may or may not.  We simply don’t know if the virus will go away and not come back.  We don’t know if the economy will recover.  We don’t know if the post virus world will be the same as the world we knew.  (If 911 affected…

What Difference Did It Make?

Holy Week is behind us.  What difference has it made?  It’s easy to feel a little let down after such a special time is past.  That got me to thinking about the huge difference the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus have made in this world in the two millennia since it happened.  What if Jesus…