In the year since my last post, I have had my other shoulder joint replaced. It was six weeks in an immobilizer, which looks like a cross between a hockey goalie’s gear and a medieval torture device, designed to hold my arm in the appropriate position until my bones grew Read more…
So…her phone is on the fritz; her ride-share doesn’t show up; she forgot to put a birthday letter in the mail. Any of these is enough to make her frantic; to have all of them come down at once is enough to make any of us frantic! “Why?” is always Read more…
Wow. It’s been a minute! Since my last post I have directed a five-day vacation Bible school drama with a teen cast, thrown a cast party, traveled 3600 miles in a pickup truck (a fancy new hybrid one), sewn a bridal veil, danced at a wedding in a vintage Art Read more…
God is in the middle of granting one of the desires of my heart, I am in the middle of a recovering from a shoulder replacement…a surgically induced five-weeks-in-a-sling sabbatical. One of the things that usually happens on a sabbatical is that normal income-producing work is suspended. I don’t have Read more…
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. — Matthew 5:6 God uses famine to satisfy His people. We know so little of famine in our country. Droughts that cause crop failure are limited in their effect because our transportation system is so vast Read more…
I have chickens. Hens, but no roosters. That means that they lay eggs that will never hatch into chicks. It got me thinking about fruitfulness. . . I wonder if they produce those beautiful, extra large, brown speckled eggs expecting them to hatch. I wonder if they are disappointed when Read more…
Help doesn’t always come in forms we like. Last week we discovered that our unwanted rodent population had destroyed the dryer vent pipe, pumping the warm, damp air into the laundry room instead of outside. Not dangerous, but irritating, especially since we had invited friends whose washer was out of Read more…
The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The LORD is good to all and His mercy is over all that He has made. All Your works shall give thanks to You, O LORD, and Your saints shall bless You! They shall speak of Read more…
I have been reading in Revelation the section that describes the assault by “the great red dragon” (also called “the accuser of the brothers and sisters”). Furious with the woman (who gave birth to the One who is to rule all the nations, a.k.a. Jesus the Messiah) and with her Read more…
Grief. That word often conjures a picture of a woman in tears over the dead body of a loved one… or the hollow-eyed, soot-stained face of a child bereft and alone in a bombed-out house. God promises to bless with comfort those who mourn. Jesus’ words on the mountain where Read more…