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 […]
Tag: God’s Faithfulness
What Star Wars Taught Me About Bible Study
Like many of you, I took my kids to see Star Wars over the Christmas break from school. I’m old enough to remember the original movies, but I don’t remember ever actually seeing them. I know, tragic, but please don’t unfriend me… But, they said, “Don’t worry. It stands alone.” And they said, “You don’t […]
Encouragement for When You Mess Up
“Can we give him back now, Mom?” This is what my youngest son asks every time our adopted dog Sheldon messes up. He has torn up the window blinds, eaten too many artificial flowers to count, chewed through my glue gun cord, deposited excrement on the upstairs carpet numerous times, unraveled nearly a mile of burlap […]
God’s Direction is for our Protection
I’m gonna get you… My sons had turned our dining table and kitchen island into something similar to a figure-eight race track traversed by two pint-sized, foot-powered drivers filled with road rage. One had done something to the other and an all-too familiar altercation ensued as the younger one chased the older intent on inflicting […]
3 Things We Find By Looking Up
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. That, coupled with the overgrowth that occurred when nobody could walk the trails, had […]
I give you my heart…
When I was in my late teens and early 20’s, I gave my heart away more freely than was prudent. Hoping that the boy receiving it would care for it. But as they judged and found me lacking, my heart was returned even more torn and tattered. By the time the man who would become […]