Browsing Category 'happy endings'
People I love have been picking a Word for the Year. I’m impressed by some of their choices, and, frankly, rather intimidated by the thought of choosing a word myself. It seems like sort of a mixture of New Year’s Resolution and prophetic insight. Both carry responsibility, and that is the part that scares me. [...]
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2012 just looks good, doesn’t it? Printed on a calendar, splashed across an add, scribbled on a yellow legal pad. The numerals themselves just seem strong to me. I’ve always been partial to even numbers, of course. I didn’t mind turning forty because thirty-nine just felt so odd. (I’m not telling you how long ago [...]
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I think I’ve mentioned before that we live in an intentional community. Sometimes it seems weird to people how connected we are. I go to church with the guy who sells me groceries, the man who changes my oil, the lady who waits on me at the cafe, and every coworker in my office. It’s [...]
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O Lord my God, you have done many miracles for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them. Psalms 40:5 (NLT) Things Like This: [...]
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We Christians love the verse in Jeremiah 29:11 that says, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. We print it in gold letters on birthday cards and graduation announcements. We throw it around [...]
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My friend, Robyn, stumbled across this picture recently and brought it to me. I am thrilled, because I remember this moment. Well, probably not the exact moment. But I remember this season when our good friend thought he was going to lose his medical profession because arthritis was crippling his hands. I remember the young [...]
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Somewhere in France today, a little boy has grown into a young man and will soon be planting a thriving church. That’s what I imagine anyway. Let me explain: More than fifteen years ago, Wendell and I went around the world at Epcot Center in four crazy hours. Spending only four hours at Epcot was [...]
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Weddings are so beautiful and so full of hope. Two couples we love were married last weekend in neighboring states. We didn’t make either celebration because we were focusing on some fruit from our own wedding day: grandchildren. But I thought of those couples all day. And I stalked their friends and families on Facebook [...]
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It’s hard to miss a mountain. But I did. An entire range of them skirting the edge of a city, in fact. I had never driven in Casper, Wyoming, before except for a short trip to Wal Mart that same morning. But when my daughter-in-law got sick and all the men were out hunting, I [...]
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Our granddaughter, Elena, explained to me this week about the Five Finger Rule in her school library. I thought at first this was going to be a lesson about stealing, since her school focuses on virtuous living. (and sitting up straight. and not chewing gum or wearing flip flops. I like this school). But The [...]
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