12 Days….

I made a Christmas Pledge this year. It involved many things, mostly keeping the main thing- the main thing. You know….remembering that JESUS is the reason for the season and those cliches that try to point our aching world back to its Creator, Sustainer,...

Veteran’s Day.Today is a day to reflect, isn’t it? This country affords its citizens the right to both honor and dishonor whatever they wish with as much gusto as we choose. How many do that? And how did I get here, Lord, instead of somewhere else?On these days when...

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When it hurts

I can’t paint this time, this season, pretty. With one phone call came a rush of emotions that left me, literally, heaving. People you love aren’t supposed to leave. “Love never quits.” Especially when they are the ones who walked hand in hand with you along the most...

Breathe Here

These are the times of sheer back to school, new activities, and harvest business. No moments for sitting and pondering. No extra seconds for planning and studying. This is one load of laundry to the next, clothes in baskets, car tank always at a quarter full,...

Looking for every open window

A couple of nights ago I was riding in the backseat with Gabi. I can’t remember for the life of me how the conversation got started but out of what seemed like the clear blue, Gabi started to talk. She said, “Mama, I prayed and I asked Jesus to come into...

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