This morning marks the beginning of Lent, 2017. I don’t celebrate Lent in the traditional sense. If I did, I’d have been at an early morning church service, hearing a message that wove around the truth that I once…
This is a funny (enjoy a laugh)… …but this little meme is an important indicator for keeping the soul growing, as opposed to decaying (as we learned last week). So, keep reading. I was born a natural “half-glass-empty-girl.” If…
There are times I wish I had gotten my PhD. I think, probably, I would have found it helpful in some arenas. For example, as our team was repacking all the items to head to Cuba (we had to…
The week before heading to Cuba, I sprinted Way-Up-North to speak for a women’s conference at a church in the Toronto area. It was spur of the moment. The event hadn’t been on my calendar. I hadn’t been on…
Tomorrow I leave for a week long trip to Cuba (that means I’m writing this blog about four days early, and hope to post it once there, as normal). I’m excited. I love the island. I love the people.…
This showed up on my Facebook feed recently: Even Facebook thinks it is imperative to remind me that I am getting old (and, how they knew my birthday was in June, I will never know, since I never gave…
When our son, Adam, was just a little guy and beginning to talk, he always referred to himself as an “it.” I don’t know what I did to dehumanize him in his mind, but I did little to correct…
The women on my dad’s side of the family have left me quite a legacy of long-life. My dear grandma-Floy passed away at the young age of 103. My Aunt Frannie is currently 102, and only in about the…
Welcome 2017! This is the first year in a long time, we actually watched you enter, and saw your counterpart walk out the door. There was no big celebration. No fireworks. No confetti. No ball dropping. No balloons. It…
Love was born in a manger. That’s the Christmas story, wrapped in swaddling clothes, easy to comprehend. What’s difficult to understand about a baby? They come ready-made to love and be loved. What’s difficult to wrap our minds around…