The Widow’s Mite, The Patron Pendant of Writers
Tying ourselves with others through talismans, reminders, treasures, or gifts is a way of reinforcing the bond of friendship even though distance may separate.
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When events with kids are not fun
It was not for the thrill of seeing how long it would take for my skin to crack open and peel. It was not even because we love badly performed minor league baseball. No. We sat in the blazing shadeless inferno that we call the Iowa Cubs stadium because as parents, that is what we…
What I’m Reading for August
I was feeling starved for a good book, or five, so I hauled the kids to the library and took a few minutes to check out my favorite shelf, New Releases. I was glad to see a few titles that caught my eye and a couple of “old friend” authors that had new books for…
Scarred fields and Scarred people
Yesterday I noticed two dark green cuts running through the field rolling by on my right. Someone must have lost a cow or just decided to cross through on their four wheeler to get to the next field over, laying down crop as they drove. The two lines gave evidence, long after whatever had cut the path was…
Ahoy, moonlight house keepers!
I just swept my house, in the dark. It needed to be done. The kids needed to go to bed. The place was really quite a mess. The kind of mess that used to make my husband a little panicky, but he has been around us for a while and knows the difference between literal…
You can lead a horse to water, just not on the Sabbath.
There is a danger we face as Christians. It is the danger of forgetting who we are.
What makes a common vessel, supernatural?
What makes a common vessel, supernatural?
What Do You Want From Me? Here’s mud in your eye.
“What do you want me to do for you?” “Lord,” he replied, “I want to see!” Jesus, God made flesh, is face to face with a blind man. Not only has he known this man from the beginning of time as his creator, but he has know about this very moment as God, it’s author….
God wants to change your definition
There is a curious thing God does in the life of Sarai and Abram leading up to entering the promise land. He changes their names. As he changed their names he changes their personal definition. A New Covenant The main place I think of where we change our names today, is in marriage. As…
On the dry ground
But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right, and on their left. Exodus 29:14 Today I am reminded that the same water that threatens to suffocate and smother me, did not destroy me. Instead of bringing death, troubled seas opened up…
Bring the breaking in me, reduce me to love.
Broken ground is ready to recieve a seed, whereas hard ground can not.
Mothering, a matter of the heart.
I’ll admit, sometimes I get a little irked. Please hear me out to the end though, and hear me with you heart. I see that “Nurses Appreciation Week” is coming up, as well as “Teachers Appreciation Week” and I know there is a celebration of Administrative Assistants that may be stretched a week as well,…
If Only…
These words are the rally cry of the discontent, the co-dependent, and the depressed. I was in a relationship (a million years ago) that gave me a serious case of the “if only’s”. If only my boyfriend was in better health, we would be happy. If only my underage self could hang out at the…