You hear the alarm bells ringing in your head. Your teenage granddaughter is parroting a worldview she learned from the media, but it clashes with the Bible. What do you do? Your spouse is exhibiting negative behavior. Do you call him on it or pretend you don’t notice? A dear friend is bemoaning current events. …
Garden Story
There are friends in my garden. They’re there right now. Well, not literally, but the plants that have been given to me remind me often of the friends, family, and neighbors who gave them. The lovely flowers remind me of lovely faces. Each plant represents a relationship, some long and some short. My starting-to-bloom…
Room at the Table
Think of some happy childhood memories. Holidays, birthdays, vacations, playing outside, family meals, reading favorite books, visiting grandparents, going to a friend’s house. Some of these happy memories have something in common. Without this ingredient, the happy times wouldn’t have happened. Think of the memories that involve a group of people that included those who…
Soul Rest
I sure felt a heavy weight dragging me down this past week. We visited our daughter who went through cancer treatment for ten long months last year and is continuing to deal with the life altering side-effects. What she has gone through and continues to go through is heart-wrenching. While we were at her house,…
Serving
Thirteen years ago we were confronted with a staggering statistic. 85% of international students in American universities never see the inside of an American’s home. Whoa! Husband and I were shocked and saddened. Well, we can help with that! So we signed up with a campus organization to be friends with a foreign student who…
Disappointed?
I glanced at the calendar and realized that this year Palm Sunday, the day of celebration, was the date of my mother’s death many years ago when I was in high school. It seemed like an irony. Happy celebration and high hopes were the order of the day when Jesus road into Jerusalem. But I…