My name is Kathy Nickerson, and I live on Mercy Street – physically and figuratively.
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Road Trip!

February 27, 2012 7 Comments

Road Trip!

Or, why I spent twelve hours of the weekend traveling with these little sweethearts: 1. I have a van, and it was going to Omaha anyway. 2. Cousins – I take it as my grandmotherly responsibility to facilitate cousin time at every opportunity. The girl cousins live in three different states and are separated by [...]

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People are the Point

February 20, 2012 3 Comments

People are the Point

I always think of the Book of Romans in the Bible as a great resource for sound doctrine. The apostle Paul outlines the doctrine of the Kingdom in such clear terms in this book. And I love so many of those passages. It is also a heavy book. Deep and many-layered. Several scholars have written [...]

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Don’t Forget the Bones

 Joseph of the Coat-of-Many-Colors is famous in the Bible for rescuing his family from famine by moving them from Canaan into Egypt. This was a good thing, which eventually went bad. Although they entered Egypt as guests, they eventually became slaves. Joseph saw that coming, but he knew it was all part of the mysterious [...]

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Still My Valentine

February 13, 2012 3 Comments

Still My Valentine

I wanted to write a gushy post his week about the guy who has been my Valentine since 1973. I like the grandfather-version of him even better than I liked the handsome college student who smoked a pipe and wore platform shoes. But I’m feeling much more grateful than gushy. Gratitude, I think, is a [...]

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