January 26, 2012 2 Comments
I remember when my high school friends and I heard about futuristic telephones with built-in t.v. screens. “That will never happen,” we said. “What if someone called while your hair was in rollers? Or when you were in the bathroom?!” I also remember the first time my husband and I saw an episode of Star [...]
Read more...December 21, 2011 2 Comments
Christmas lights are magical. They turn ordinary street corners and bare tree limbs into a dazzling display that evokes joy and wonder and wishes and hope. I think such moments are glimpses of Heaven. A preview of the new earth we’ll enjoy once Jesus comes again. All the words in the Bible used to describe [...]
Read more...November 28, 2011 10 Comments
I’m irritated about “Happy Holidays,” but not in the way you might think. I’m all for keeping Christ in Christmas. If we take Him out, we just have mas. And that doesn’t mean anything at all. But, until our politically-correct society hijacked holiday, it wasn’t a dirty word. It was a beautiful word evoking all [...]
Read more...July 7, 2011 3 Comments
Wendell and I don’t own a house anymore. This still feels strange to me, even after several years. We bought our first home together before we were married, and we’ve owned six homes since then. Some of my friends still live in the homes where they reared their children. They now welcome grandchildren to yards [...]
Read more...July 3, 2011 3 Comments
“When I thank God for His tender mercies each night, you are on the list.” That is a paraphrase from a movie line. It is also a truth in my life. Among the many tender mercies God has granted me, being born to this handsome couple probably tops them all. My parents, Clifford and Virginia [...]
Read more...February 24, 2011 4 Comments
Last week I heard from one of the editors who helped form me as a writer. It has been more than twenty years since I submitted my first article to him, and we stay in touch. The magazine he worked for no longer exists, but the lessons he taught me remain. One lesson is how [...]
Read more...January 31, 2011 4 Comments
If you have been reading your daily horoscope for years and still haven’t found health, happiness, and that “unexpected opportunity that leads to great advancement” … maybe you aren’t really a Sagittarius after all. According to news reports last week, it turns out the astrological signs are off. The charts were set some 2000 years [...]
Read more...September 9, 2010 4 Comments
Years ago, I had an Aunt Anice. She wore a silver fur stole, carried Chicklet gum in her bag, and arrived in our tiny town once a month from Kansas City… by bus! She wasn’t actually a blood relative. In those days, we children referred to all the older members of our church as uncles [...]
Read more...July 9, 2010 6 Comments
On Thursday afternoon, I asked our ten-year-old grandson, John Michael, “So, where do you think Lebron James will end up after his big announcement tonight?” (In case you are sports-challenged like me, I’ll fill you in from what I learned on Fox News. This guy is earning as much as the gross national product of [...]
Read more...May 10, 2010 39 Comments
I’ve never done a book review on my blog before, but I couldn’t resist mentioning this one. It was written by my favorite priest. I’m not Catholic, so you might think that gives Father Mike an unfair advantage in the favorite priest contest. But you have to understand he’s up against some pretty tough competition [...]
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... an act of kindness, compassion, or favor. Our mercy toward one another.