Many thanks to my guest artist, Michele Sherwood, for these adorable images. I was suddenly a motherless sixteen-year-old with a physically and emotionally absent father in another state. I could have been dangerously vulnerable, an easy target for someone with bad intent. But, instead, God put many people around me who cared. They were…
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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,…
When Life Doesn’t Make Sense
His scream tore the early morning air as his body hurtled toward the rocks below. Just one misstep and his young life was snuffed out. One minute he was preparing his ropes for rock climbing, the next he was dead. Today one of our adult daughters called and recounted this unexpected loss of her 19-year-old…