Have you ever stopped to think about why you grumble and what it says about your view of God? OK, maybe you aren’t a grumbler, but I have been just lately. And I stand convicted that there is more to it than meets the ear. God quite dislikes it as it demonstrates our distrust in […]
For this week, please enjoy my thoughts in pictures at “Sketches from Skeltons”. http://linda.theskeltons.org/2013/09/houseboating-together-again/ We emerged with kids and grands from our houseboat vacation yesterday with goods in tow and dispersed to head to our separate homes to dig into routines new and old. Jim, Rachel and I will be a few more days visiting other […]
I woke this morning to the sweetly reminiscent smell of creosote—reminiscent of all my childhood years lived in close proximity to the historic Weston Canal, having to cross the Canal bridge with its creosote laden piers many times a week— for mail, for church, for the baseball field, for school day lunches, for just about […]
The older I get the more of a ‘Calvinist’ I become—the more grateful for the sovereign grace of God. As my energy and idealism mellow with age, I look back at the first fifty years and see a trail of grace I may have once mistaken for the product of my energies. All the really […]
Well, it’s been quite a week…may have started with a sag in hormones, but a bunch of things conspired to exacerbate the situation… Being the time of year that homeschoolers assess what’s been accomplished (and what’s been missed) in terms of academics, I was in this mode well before Rachel requested to see Micah’s old […]