It’s interesting to me how difficult things bring out different things in each of us.  I have found it to be interesting as I have observed how people respond and react to the coronavirus crisis and the character in those around me. Most inspire me and cause me to...

My friend Liz sent me one of her encouraging texts and at the end of her message she asked, “May I bring a dinner on Thursday?”   First of of all, what’s this “may I” business?  We’ve been friends since our daughters became best friends in second grade so what’s with...

I first started blogging back in August of 2011.  The girls at work got me onto it and in about 10 minutes flat they set me up on Facebook (which I had never used) and set up a blog website (I had never read a blog) and they told me, “OK, now.  Start blogging!” (They...

Last week my friend Mary sent me the song video My Redeemer is Faithful and True, by Steven Curtis Chapman.  I am familiar with the song but had not heard it for many, many  years.  It has a sort of melancholy resonance to it and when I sat down to listen the words...

Years ago my friend told me a story that is one of my favorite all-time stories and I think it’s worth sharing. I’m going to refer to my friend as - Margaret - since I neglected to ask permission to share her name. (Although I am pretty sure she would have given me...

I love my kids - I love the spouses who my kids married - I love my grandkids.  I'm telling you...when I hear a church message about "idols", sometimes I have to stop and pause.  In the most important places of my heart - I envision eleven little pedestals where these...

It took me until I was about...ahhh...58 years old (which I am currently) to realize that it is perfectly acceptable for a Christian to have boundaries.  Boundaries.  Boundaries.  I love that word.  It means I don't have to be a doormat or allow myself to be stomped...

Conundrum: A confusing and difficult problem or question. I never really believed that there was such thing as an "undecided" vote for President....especially in the month of October.  But I have proven myself wrong.  I have found myself in the undecided camp.  In...

When I was in college I had a roommate who thrived on being busy.  I remember laying around on our twin beds on each side of the room with our oh-so-cute matching green and pink bedspreads. On each wall above our beds was a cork board.  On this board we would display...