1) My Favorite New ‘Thing’ for 2015 – Blogging!
The most appropriate name for my year would be: “The Year of the Newbie”. Every venture I embarked on – grandma’ing, blogging, Facebooking, Tweeting – I was new at.
If a visual learning curve were drawn for my year, it would be a vertical line – straight skyward. I have loved the challenge, the learning, the connecting, the writing, the whole kit-and-kaaboodle of it. I have grown… [Read more…]
I don’t like the middles. Can you relate?
I love the endings (specifically, happy ones), and I enjoy the beginnings (so much to look forward to, so much hope) – but, life’s middles are not my favorite place. [Read more…]
‘Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?’ This was a popular ad campaign on a local Christian radio station I listened to in the 90’s. I got so sick and tired of the ‘sick and tired’ campaign that I stopped listening to that radio station.
Does it bother you, like it does me, that Christian’s lives don’t look different from others? It seems like we should have ‘more’ life…..less of the ‘sick and tired’ stuff!
“I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10 [Read more…]
Imagine you are bright, scholarly, a top student in your high school, planning a possible college career at Yale. Then ‘it’ happens.
At a neighborhood ice hockey game, one of the players on the opposing team ‘accidentally’ swings a stick at you and hits you in the face, causing terrible damage. Did I mention that the player who hit you with the bat ends up becoming a mass murderer? And, after losing your top teeth and – experiencing excruciating pain, you find out your mother is dying of a chronic disease and requires constant care-giving. The usual, right? [Read more…]
Are you, like me – selfish? Do you want your own way? Do you like your own stuff? How do we reconcile our human nature with God’s command to us to ‘love your neighbor as yourself’? [Read more…]
