I am fickle. The longer I live with myself the more I realize it. Adolescent mood swings gave way to mommy tantrums (I never thought I had anger issues and then came a husband and kids, even once a flying saucepan). Then once the kids were gone and you’d think peace might reign over the […]
I was in a Bible study group lately where the question was posed to a couple of retired couples—“So, what’s it like being retired? What do you do with your time?” Free time is one of those coveted commodities in the busy-ness of our ‘working’ years. We’re sure that if we had more of it […]
“What we proclaim is not ourselves but Jesus Christ.” Paul said this, a long time ago. Times have changed. Now there’s Facebook and Google+. There are endless blogs and social twitter to sustain the soul’s endless craving for attention. We all want to matter, to someone. And now all the world can know what I […]
I don’t have the gift of making sandwiches, but that’s ok. I will bring the cookies and maybe some celery sticks stuffed with Cheese Whiz… I am late in life coming to terms with oughts and shoulds, confessing who I am and who I am not, realizing what I am designed to do and what […]
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 […]