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Love Your Neighbor

Love God. Love your neighbor. It’s not a suggestion. It’s the pathway to ending the division.

Broken. Years ago, this crystal mouse treasure from my childhood broke when my children devised an elaborate and not well-thought-out plan to scale the living room wall using yarn. The display the crystal mouse sat on, along with Irish China and other cherished items, came crashing down, breaking into pieces. This past year felt aContinue reading “Broken But better”

Storms of Life

God’s faithfulness never gets knocked out during the storms of life. He uses His people to show His love, the saved, to rescue the lost.

Deep Roots Not Rocks

Poor Charlie Brown. Nothing could be more disappointing than going door-to-door with your friends on Halloween while they got candy, and you exclaim, “I got a rock.” It compares to getting an acorn for making it into law school or a sapling when you graduate.

Sticky Situation

Remember Sticker Charts? I tried them with my kids. We had Chore Charts, Teeth Brushing Charts, and Behavior Charts. The last one got a little- well, sticky. My oldest apparently wrote the book on picking on younger siblings. My daughter learned quickly that throwing a fit drew attention to it. I was not too fondContinue reading “Sticky Situation”

Name That Tune?

In college for some reason that defies logic, I thought the words to “Little Red Corvette” were “pay the rent collect.” It is not even close, and it doesn’t make any sense. Venmo and PayPal didn’t exist then. Don’t mock me. Everyone gets the words wrong to a song or two. Sometimes we know theContinue reading “Name That Tune?”

Real Customer Support

When you order high-speed Internet, you can be sure of one thing: the customer service will not be. Gone are the days when someone came to your house to install it. Now, the box arrives on your front porch with pictorial instructions on how the whole thing is supposed to go together. Now, I knowContinue reading “Real Customer Support”

Settling For Crumbs

A replica of a famous painting once hung in my in-laws’ house. I love art, and this moved me. “The Gleaners” shows poor women picking up leftover crops after the reapers had harvested. This is the story of Ruth in the Bible. She and her mother-in-law Naomi lost their husbands. Ruth followed Naomi to BethlehemContinue reading “Settling For Crumbs”

Menacing Monkey Bars

My nemesis: The Monkey Bars. We moved to Missouri from Pennsylvania when I was in grade school. No playgrounds at my old school, just painted Hopscotch and Four Square games on the asphalt. The new school had it all, including the monkey bars. The other kids had two years of experience crossing the dastardly jungleContinue reading “Menacing Monkey Bars”

Watch Your Mouth

I spend a lot of time with young children. You have to watch what you say. They make Artificial Intelligence look like nothing when it comes to imitating you. The other day, while shopping with a two-year-old, listening to “Old McDonald”, she paused and shouted, “Sing it, CeCe.”, her pet name for me. Now, here’sContinue reading “Watch Your Mouth”