Last week, in writing about the fun of my oldest son’s wedding, I alluded to the fact that my oldest daughter was not present and not invited. Yes, it is true, she was not invited.
Sometimes life feels like we are all on a chessboard of life, being spiritually urged by both sides, as shown […]
My son got married last weekend! I am still glowing with warm memories of the event. They got married in the evening and it was one of those nights that I will go back to in my mind over and over.
The bride was lovely, the groom handsome (no bias there!). Actually, all wedding couples […]
We all have “To Do” lists. Some of us make written lists…that would be my husband. I see them by his computer or on the kitchen counter before he goes hiking. He carefully makes his list and he loves to cross off the items. Yesterday, we were out grocery shopping for just a few […]
My youngest baby bird wants desperately to be an adult, to stay out of the nest and be soaring on his own. There is just one slight problem.
He is doing the equivalent of a baby eagle perched on a rocky out-cropping besides the cliff-side nest and saying, “I’m on my own now! I’m never […]
I like life to move along on a straight path. I like blue skies, sunny days and above all, no potholes in my life please. I know that is unrealistic but still, I continue to delude myself that my road ahead, at least in the near future, will be free of bumps.
Sometimes there are […]
When I was 10, we moved from one side of town to the other side. That move draws a line in my memories such that any recollections I have of the neighborhood around that first house are in the context of 5th grade and younger.
I look back now and realize that those under-10-years-old playtime […]
This week has been a sobering week. There have been 3 events on my mind this week in which families have been grieving over the loss of loved ones. In one instance, the event happened close to us geographically and there were also two other deaths where I knew the families personally.
The first event […]
I had a shallow moment this week and decided to write about that struggle in this blog. The picture to the left shows “shallow” in the lovely, peaceful, pristine sense, however my shallow moment was more self-absorbed that that. Have you ever gone through a situation where you know that there is a better […]
I grew up a few miles from the ocean and my parents often took us to the beach on the weekends. My Dad would pull into a camping spot with the camper, make sure that the camper was level to the ground (keeps kids from rolling out of bed at night), then he would […]
I have been reminded by a truth from the Book of Jonah this week. Fast forward the story in your mind, past the “disobeying God and fleeing on the ship part”. Keep going past the “thrown overboard and swallowed by the big fish/whale” then the “whale spits up Jonah on dry land”. Now slow […]
