Goodies that have escaped categorizing
It’s like I’ve come to a fork in the road. There’s no going straight ahead, no going on just like always. Life is changing, whether I like it or not, and demands that I get my bearings! Rachel turned 18 this week and took off on a camping trip to celebrate. How empty the house […]
It’s been a very rainy week. The grad party squeaked by with just a bit of drizzle, but not enough to keep the kids inside. Thank-you, Lord! But Monday, it rained. And Tuesday. And Wednesday. Thursday afternoon we jumped on the tandem when the road had dried between showers and got a hundred yards up […]
Graduation celebration weekend has finally come at our house. I suppose most of the country is done with it but we, being homeschoolers, delayed a few weeks to arrange it around family schedules…Tonight’s the family dinner, the giving of the diploma and the grad gifts. Sunday’s the reception with friends. It’s an eagerly anticipated set […]
It’s one we’re all very familiar with. It’s the best of its kind for motivating random acts of kindness and/or inducing random fits of guilt! But I would suggest, it’s misused for these purposes. And mostly, we’ve missed the point. The story I refer to is of course, The Good Samaritan (Luke 10). This parable […]
I have started reading Ezekiel this week. It does not exactly lend itself to ‘devotional’ blogging. After reading the first six or so chapters I was depressed for the rest of the day. Hormones maybe, but disturbing reading to be sure. First there are all these bizarre ‘living creatures’ with wings that turn out to […]