Spoiler alert! Don’t keep reading unless you are prepared to hear what happens in the movie Finding Dory. It’s a kids movie, so you probably already guessed it ends with happily ever after. Dory finds her family and she swims off into the sunset with her parents, Nemo, Marlin, and Hank, the angry, seven-armed octopus. […]
Category: Embracing Memories
3 Ways to Improve Your Memory
Have you seen Finding Dory yet? If so, maybe you aren’t so surprised to see that I’m writing about it, for the next two weeks, actually. But I’ll try not to spoil it for you. At least not this week. It is full of lessons about MEMORIES. There is a grumpy old seven armed octopus […]
What’s Your Inside Story?
My husband was recently home on a twenty day break in the middle of his twelve month Army deployment. It was a bittersweet time. We desperately wanted to enjoy each other’s company, but the black cloud of his impending return to Kuwait was never fully out of sight. It was a feat of sheer willpower […]
What I Learned Dancing with My Daddy
Dancing with my earthly daddy taught me an awful lot about navigating life’s challenges with my Heavenly Father. ********* My Memories As I settled into the window seat on my flight to Florida, my neighbor to the left asked why I was headed to Tampa. In a quaking voice, I choked out words that sounded […]
Cradle, Cross, Crown
Easter. It completes the full story of the cradle, the cross, and the crown. In December I wrote about Hope for a friend’s two week Advent Bible Study. My prompt was “Expecting The Best is Yet to Come.” Even as I was writing, I simply couldn’t shake the feeling that our hope really comes at Easter. I wanted […]
Burst My Bubble!
I typically attend a Lutheran church in a fairly well off area. We are a comfortable middle class family with two working cars. I don’t have to shop at a thrift store unless I want to. I don’t worry about how to pay the bills each month or what my kids are going to […]