I pulled up to our new place and yanked my suitcase out of the back of the car. And as I grabbed the suitcase’s handle, I felt a thud on the top of my sandaled foot as a cast iron frying pan flew out and landed on me. Exhausted from packing up our condo an […]
He Who is Last Shall be First
Jesus had something very interesting to those last in line, those who spend their lives serving others. Ugh, serving … such an outdated term, right. Not really. It’s the main theme running through the life of Jesus. Do you have someone in your life that serves you? It could be a familiar waitress, a bank […]
Your Best Gift
In keeping with the Year of the Letters, I suggested in my last post that for February that we write a letter to someone we miss. My dad died in his mid-sixties so I penned him this letter. I lost my dad early. Only in my late thirties, he left our family for bigger parts, […]
A Year of Letters
A Year of Letters. The stamped, licked and sent letter is almost dead. Keeping those special letters in your top bureau drawer has gone the way of the hope chest, a quaint idea but seemingly too sentimental for our times. Well, I’m here to fan a few flames from the past. Recently I reread […]
A Dickens Christmas
Carol here: It’s a pleasure to have my husband do a guest blog. He found a intriguing article about how Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol turned a quiet overlooked holiday into the joyful celebration it is today. I hope you will enjoy his blog below: I’m sharing an excellent article I’ve read about Charles […]
Dreaming of a Far Away Christmas
The phone rang. My brother on the other end sat in a hot tub as he talked to me. Evidently the weather had been better to him in California that to us in West Michigan. Rub it in, Brother. I could hardly open the front door for all the snow piled up against it. […]