Each year on Martin Luther King, Jr. day, I am intentional about pondering the Civil Rights Movement. I wanted to invite each of you to do the same. This year I am struck by how recently these milestone decisions were made! 1954 This is the year the United States Supreme Court declared state laws establishing […]
Watch this 1.5 minute video clip HERE and then ask these questions about God. (@AMAZINGNATURE on Twitter, 1/1/2019 at 12:37 p.m.) Are you really handing God your problems? THIS God, not a smaller version you have in your head. …do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let […]
So many of us rolled out of bed on the first day of 2019 and life was hard already. Our circumstances were the same as they were the day before. Nothing had changed while we slept. What now? How do we live through the storm? How do we keep from drowning in the waves washing over […]
Wrap up 2018. Whether you are a New Year’s resolution person or not, most of us think about what kind of year 2018 has been, even if for a few minutes. I usually spend 30 minutes tying up the current year before crossing the threshold into the next one. I write a list of the […]
This is the first year of my life I prepared my heart for celebrating Christmas by paying attention to the church practice of advent during the four Sundays in December. I have been sobered by the HOPE of our adoption, challenged by the FAITH of Mary and Elizabeth, and have been practicing PEACE. This week, […]
Christmas is nine days away. The last day of school for many children is only four days away. Adding to our normal daily routines, this season delivers helping children study for midterms, gift shopping, Christmas cards and extra doses of groceries, cooking, baking, traveling, guests, family dynamics and cleaning. What am I forgetting? Oh, yes. […]
This December, I want to focus less on giving gifts and more on receiving the Gift of Jesus. Last week HERE I contemplated the intricacies of adoption. We have HOPE because Jesus came to rescue us when we could do nothing to rescue ourselves. The process of adoption – though beautiful – is never easy. […]
This week our family celebrated the adoption of our son twelve years ago on November 29. (I have blogged previously about it HERE , HERE and HERE.) He came downstairs to a few gifts and mementos, including a photo of him being escorted to the courthouse wearing tiny little penny loafers, while holding hands with […]
Our Thanksgiving guests just left our driveway, all wrapped up in my prayers for a safe trip home. This year the visit was particularly good, ending with two fiery rounds of Sequence with Grandma-Grandma around the kitchen table amidst large amounts of friendly banter and laughter. The visits eventually end, however, then what? As we […]
Usually I like to post a warm and fuzzy post for Thanksgiving week about gratitude, but not this year. Families and friends are gathered around good food all across our nation this week in hopes of enjoying themselves. But so often we don’t enjoy ourselves. Being with family can be hard, and for so many, […]
