June 4, 2024 Reading Wrestlings “They told me she needs to repeat Kindergarten next year. She isn’t reading yet.” I tried to present a calm, encouraging response to my…
May 15, 2024 Gardening with Mom My mom was a gardener, but not only of plants. She planted seeds wherever she went: seeds of kindness, seeds of love, seeds of…
May 13, 2024 Mother’s Day Delight This is the third post in my “Remembering Backwards” series. On Mother’s Day, I remember my mom. I might have been 27, a young…
May 3, 2024 Some (Days) Some days are singing days. Some days are simple, silent and still. Cerulean skies still my mind. Simplicity smiles with a sigh. Some days…
April 19, 2024 Lonely “We all come and go alone…” Joni Mitchell “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” Luke 5:16 Sometimes I feel lonely in…
April 5, 2024 Complicate “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make…
April 4, 2024 “It is finished.” John 19:30 “Do you who live in eternity hear the prayers of those of us who live in time? We can’t see what’s ahead…
March 1, 2024 Respite Respite: A period of rest or relief “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 Sometimes…
