Wave Effect
Consider this: 66 years ago when I was born 246 years ago when the Revolutionary War was won 530 years ago when Columbus set foot in the...
Run, Walk, Crawl, or be Carried. Just Come.
Deep Need I felt it as a young mom, pregnant, with a 2 ½-year-old. At 12 weeks along, I went to the doctor. No heartbeat. I was...
The Power of Thoughts
Can genuine joy coexist with heart-rending grief? I doubted it. Not until I experienced it myself would I have believed joy could be so...
Treasure in My Heart
Why, I have it right now. This very minute. And that means that all those things that pester me like gnats, but won’t mean anything...
Baa . . . Baa
“Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Baa, Baa Black Sheep” were two of the nursery rhymes I sang to my 2-year-old granddaughter last week as we...
Getting and Giving
Can you guess what most people want in this new year? If Google searches on New Year’s resolutions are any indicator, the top three goals...
Next Step
How do you want to be different by the end of next year? That was the question I heard on the December 31, 2015, podcast of Revive Our...
The Ugly and Stupid
“Hey, Stupid! Can’t you do anything right?” “Come on, let’s go somewhere else. We don’t want HER around.” “What’s your middle name?...
If Only
If only we had our own house. The refrain repeated itself over and over. After fifteen years of renting, I wanted our own home
