Last weekend we made the familiar 10 hour drive south. Since my husband and I wouldn't see my uncle until the next day and there were no motel rooms available anyway, we drove the extra hour into San Francisco. That choice gave us dinner at a favorite restaurant, and an unseasonably affordable, beautiful hotel room …
Flower baskets have been particularly lovely this year. There in the picture I snapped was the tree lined hill in the distance. All the beauty God gives to us for free. And I almost missed it because I didn't feel like planting baskets. Glad I did it anyway. Wind blowing my hair, river rolling it's …
The name may sound similar, as in the outlaw from back in the day, but Jesse Jamison was actually a blacksmith in mid-1800's Indiana. I think I know how Elon, his mother, felt when he enlisted in the 66th Indiana Volunteers. When your child chooses the military way, you live with a mixture of pride …
Two team members are dead. The third rests against a tree, mortally wounded. His last words are to tell his wife how much he loves her, "and that I died with my brothers...with a full heart" From the movie Lone Survivor. The scene and those words are stuck in my head. What does it mean to die with …
My husband and I like fresh air. The good news is we both love the house filled with fresh air. The bad news is we have varying criteria, methods and internal thermostats. I may be feeling perfectly comfortable when he will suddenly fling wide the front and back doors. While this creates a lovely wind tunnel effect …
Saying "no" to a slice of thickly frosted, gooey chocolate cake can make you feel dazed and confused... Staying open to love, when there's a choice to judge, feels risky... Completing the project, the one they want, the one you want to quit, taps every reserve you have... But you will feel better in the …
If you post on Facebook regularly, you are familiar with your "memories" from a year or two or five popping into your daily newsfeed. This week, this photo memory caught my attention. It was exactly one year ago that one of my new daughters-in-law very bravely, on her own, bought a cute little house. She searched, …
Years ago when I lived somewhere else and was gainfully employed at our local university, I was at a "Support Staff" meeting where employee labels were being discussed. There were "Faculty", who were pretty much the stars of the show. (oh yes, just ask them!) There were "Administrators" with power to hire, fire and make big decisions. They went …
While on vacation your body was busy but your mind was relaxed. You ate good food, reunited with family, saw new places, recorded new memories. Then it stopped. And, oh, how well I know the feeling that followed... You squeeze yourself into a Lilliputian airline seat, spend the day alternately chilled or overheated on the plane, then run into that …
When the road has changed, When I feel unknown, When there are more questions than answers, I remind myself; You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me..... Psalm 139:5 Truly, there is no place I can go where my Father is not already waiting.
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