The spring flood waters finally receded enough for me to hike my usual loop at the lake near our house. Unfortunately, my Mother’s warning about critters and snakes being more active after having their habitat reorganized rang loudly in my ears. Continue Reading
Weary Warrior
If you have come expecting a good message today, I hope you won’t feel cheated by this. The beginnings of countless potential blog posts clutter my desktop, but I haven’t been able to finish a single one. So, rather than rush through something that Continue Reading
JUST SHUT UP
“JUST SHUT UP!” Not a sentence anybody wants to hear. Certainly not someone who loves words the way I do. Most definitely not from the mouth of their seven year old son. His choice of words and tone left much to be desired, but he taught me an Continue Reading
Don’t Back Up
Have you ever been challenged by a story? A man leading a devotion for servant ministries on Fort Hood, told a compelling story about a prison chaplain who was called in the 1980s to minister to an inmate dying of AIDS. Of course, we didn’t Continue Reading
Whitewash
Does he really think that is going to make a difference? I pondered this as the salesman demonstrated his company’s new cleaning product on my son’s old sneaker. The sole was flapping. The rubber was peeling. The laces were frayed. The toes Continue Reading
I’m Expecting
A few years ago when we were planning to move from Colorado, my husband did everything required to ensure we would end up in Virginia near my family. He put in his request with the assignments officer for a job for which he was highly qualified. A Continue Reading
