My son loves to play the piano. He practices for a couple of hours a day, without ever being told. All of our children are required to take piano lessons beginning at age nine. They must play until we feel that have reached a basic level of understanding, then, they can choose another instrument to …
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1 It really boggles my mind to think that it is already a new year. I know that logically, time hasn’t sped up or slowed its pace since the beginning of the ages when God created it, …
This is a phrase from a song that I’ve heard my whole life. It’s a phrase I’ve used many times in the ten years since my dad’s death. Just recently, something occurred to me. Whenever I say that “Heaven’s sounding sweeter” because a saint has just entered its gates, am I saying that Heaven could …
It was a typo. I was writing an email to my sister and I began it with “Hell, Melanie!”. I didn’t notice it, nor did she. When she replied, I saw my original message, and my glaring mistake. What a difference one letter makes! Just the other day, something similar happened, only this time I caught …
“Now, don’t get panicky, Ethel!” exclaimed a very panicky Lucy Ricardo to a calm, composed Ethel when she comes into Lucy’s cluttered apartment in a classic episode of I Love Lucy. In “Off to Florida”, Lucy and Ethel are supposed to join Ricky and Fred in the sunshine state, but Lucy loses the train tickets the …
I stopped at the large window in the master bedroom of our parsonage. The view wasn’t anything majestic; no mountains, ocean or rolling hills to see. My view was a red brick church building and an asphalt parking lot. I stared at the empty lot, watching the breeze rustle the leaves of the bushes in …
“Do you want to just do it alone?” I snapped to my dad as he was helping me with a chore. He had made some innocent comment to me about my method of packing (or something) and those sharp words were my reply. I never imagined that those would be among my final memories with …
Last Thursday, I headed north to Oklahoma City en route to Chicago, Illinois. I am totally unfamiliar with our state’s capital, so let’s just say I was intimidated before I even got to the airport. Probably because I got lost. After much prayer, the Lord revealed to me the location of the hotel in which …
Four years ago, I wrote a small Bible study on Proverbs 31. It’s a verse-by-verse walk through this wonderful chapter, doing one verse every day for a month. You can either just read it online or print it out and answer the study thoughts. I wrote it for myself, but hoped the Lord might be …
We just survived a pretty rough rainstorm here. We had a bit of hail and some very strong winds! I am not too crazy about storms. I don’t like the “spiritual” storms of life any more than I do actual storms. I’ve spent the day re-organizing my blog. In the process, I’ve skimmed over some …
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