It’s just not the way I operate. Not with this blog. I tend not to hem and haw around when developing and drafting a post. I jump in to see what will happen. However, this last month I jumped in four pools of thought, came up with four drafts, and left them all out to dry! Nothing satisfied me. Thus, according to my self-imposed rhythm, I’m late, I’m late.
In my last post, I asked Continue reading
I had a taste, a sweet and nutritious taste yesterday of God at work in my life. His invisible hand became visible, and I tasted what His hand served. My first glimpse of His sleeve occurred the night before. Continue reading
Work is a beautiful word and a satisfying action.You discover life’s positives often by tunneling through the negatives. If you have experienced debilitating illness for any period, you know the sadness (frustration, despair?) of not being able to work and the longing to work again. Serious debilitation during one season taught me to appreciate batting my eyelids, Continue reading
Do you celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ as a babe at Christmas via Advent traditions? I come from a non-liturgical church background. When I was a child, we didn’t practice any Advent season tradition as is often done during the month before Christmas day. However, one of the churches Paul and I were a part of when we were rearing our girls participated in Advent traditions. We enjoyed the lighting of the candles Continue reading
We’re in the middle of a topic spurred by Kate Shellnutt’s article in Christianity Today entitled, “I Didn’t Marry My Best Friend.” Like Kate, I did not marry my best friend. What if I would have waited for “my type”? Where would I be now? Continue reading
KO Note: I wrote the following on September 16 but then, distracted, decided not to post it. The sirens of my current, biblical research project pester, pester. It’s the middle of the night. I can’t sleep. Mentally blocking the sirens, the pleasant tones of JNC invite me. Hmm. Some may find this post worth consideration. I’ll revise it and pass it on to you. Here goes:
I’m sure you’ve had this experience. Every once in a while, you read something that so resonates within you that you passionately exclaim, “Yes!” This was my experience when I read an article from Christianity Today entitled, “I Didn’t Marry My Best Friend.” Written by Kate Shellnutt (a millennial — yes, a “young lady” who could be my daughter), her young experience echoes in her own way my older experience. Nothing is new under the sun, but everything is new to the individual at the point of encounter or awareness. Continue reading
Do you ever shop at Trader Joe’s? We find shopping there to be refreshing and never stressful. I always look at their greeting cards, which are only $1:00 each. Here are a few TJ quotations that truly can bless:
Quotations for brunch or lunch or for a midnight snack — I’m going to offer you these as a series of posts. Soul food. I’ll dish up some thought-worthy sentences (in my opinion, of course) and then one longer quotation followed by my thoughts. At least, that’s my starting idea. Here we go.
Who might you be and what would you have become if you were born in another country and in a different culture and time? Reading biographies can give us glimpses into the many possibilities. I’d like to quote today from the life story of one of the last century’s most breath-taking individuals.
Born in 1909 into poverty in eastern Europe and soon orphaned, he was nurtured on the food of atheism — be it food or poison. He did not believe in God. He did not believe in Christ. He did not believe in religion. To this young man, all such beliefs were “harmful for the human mind.” Continue reading
Journey North Character 