I’ve been thinking…
Making Friends with Faithfulness
I’ve always marveled at “Word of the Year” people. How do you decide on a word? Do you choose one for yourself, what you want to characterize or motivate the year ahead? Does God put a word on your heart? Does it come directly from Him into your mind? Does He reveal...
Adventures in Frog-Eating
If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.Mark Twain Meet my grandfrogs—Smeagle and Gorf (pets, not delicacies). Perhaps you’re familiar with the Mark...
Happily Ever After?
Can I let you in on a little secret? I’m writing my first book. I’ve wanted to be a writer from the time I was a little girl. My friend, Heather, and I were quite ambitious as children. We once started a petition to have the old Thompson house rebuilt as a point of...
When God Interrupts
"The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps." As mentioned in a previous post, I have established a practice of writing three pages first thing every morning. I got out of the habit for the last several months while it seemed that everything in...
And the Other Shoe Dropped
I stood on the front lawn, the phone to my ear, a 9-1-1 dispatcher providing the assurance that help was on the way, and wondered if the gurney would fit through the mess of flower pots on the front sidewalk. A hauling service truck turned onto the street, ready to...
Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me
Saturday evenings were very predictable in the home in which I grew up. Hee-Haw came on at 6:00 p.m., and my parents tuned in religiously. (Perhaps this is where I developed my extreme dislike for country music.) As there was only one TV in our home at that time,...
We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.