Photo by Leah Kelley from Pexels A few weeks ago, I was looking through some old documents and found an excerpt from the summer in which I met JJ. Although we had just met, we knew that we were mutually interested in each other and were getting to know each other better as a result.… Continue reading How Love Can Move You
A few weeks ago, Liam and I saw an educational clip during the commercial segment of his favorite cartoon on Nickelodeon. It was about Juneteenth, a holiday observed on June 19th in recognition of the liberation of the last of the slaves in 1865. The sobering part about this story is that Abraham Lincoln had… Continue reading Let Freedom Ring
Ten years ago, I bought the tapestry pictured above on a mission trip. I hadn’t intended to buy anything so early into the project, but I couldn’t resist the intricacy and vibrant colors of this cloth, and I’m glad I couldn’t. It has served as a reminder to me of how I need to view… Continue reading The Tapestry
Years ago, a friend of mine told me about how she used to read Corrie Ten Boom’s story every year. I don’t recall the full extent of our conversation anymore, but I do remember a few details. The gist of it was about a question that a person in the book had asked Corrie Ten… Continue reading Let Your Light Shine
My niece is celebrating her 13th birthday this month, and in honor of the occasion, I wanted to share a children’s story I wrote for her several years ago by the title of “Nothing is Too Broken." As broken as our world is nowadays, all I can say is this--I'm glad that this title is… Continue reading Nothing is Too Broken
I took a picture of my son looking into a soccer field through metal bars about a week ago, and my heart aches every time I look at it. It sums up so much of what I have been feeling recently. I’m sure many of you can relate. We’re on one side of the fence,… Continue reading On This Side of the Fence
I bought this at the beach years ago. Pearls are one of my favorite jewels. I love how they are formed and what we can learn through them. Let me state the obvious; life won’t always be this way. The reign of the coronavirus will one day come to an end, and we will resume… Continue reading The World is Our Oyster
I was probably on Facebook when it happened. I confess I have been escaping to it far too often nowadays. I finished looking at the image on my screen, then I set my phone down and turned around to investigate the mysterious rustling noise that was following the pitter patter of my toddler’s footsteps. I… Continue reading Sweeping Up Pine Cones
Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels When JJ discovered that he could check out movies for free from the library last fall, the library quickly became the place to be for a quiet family evening out. We were easily there every Wednesday and had our routine down pat. JJ would head to the movie section… Continue reading We All Need a Hero
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 I pulled weeds a little over a month ago. If Liam had not been playing in that section of the yard, I wouldn’t have noticed them; they were so small. I… Continue reading Pulling Weeds
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