Celebration!

It was a wonderful weekend of savoring family.  We gathered in our daughter’s hometown to celebrate her completion of cancer treatment and her 42nd birthday.  It was a fun mask-erade party.  She has bravely pushed through nine months of radical surgery, intense chemo, and extended radiation. . . all that pain and misery with a…

Happy and Strong

Why am I thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas when it isn’t even summer yet?!  What do the holidays have to do with my burning questions about whether God is happy and whether he’s happy with me?  Some of you can identify with where I’m coming from in my hang-up with feelings of falling short.  Some…