I’m ready for a change of season. Snow is beautiful. But it gets old. And I grow impatient for something new–a pussy willow, a green shoot, something to show that we are not stuck in eternal winter. Now that the calendar page has flipped out of winter I am wooed by memories of forsythia blooms […]
It’s the time of year for Christmas letters, time to re-cap what has transpired month-by-month in our lives. Births and deaths, weddings and vacations, accomplishments and happy memories. Meanwhile we relegate the sad, the bad, and the hopeless to wait in the closet till the Christmas letters are signed and mailed, or till we’ve pressed […]
Once-upon-a-humid North Dakota afternoon on a gently sloping coulee bank two young lovers exchanged words that ushered in a whole new life for both of them. Their destinies were joined that day when the young girl responded to the eager young man’s proposal of marriage with the words: “I’d be delighted”. That was thirty years […]
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 […]
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Ps.91:1 Here in the Shadow—Shannon Wexelberg The autumn rains have returned. I plunked a Vitamin D capsule by my cereal bowl this morning. We are braced for a change in weather. In other ways this is […]