My second grandchild, a girl, is due in only seven weeks! To say I am excited is an understatement. Having enjoyed nearly nine months of being a grandmother for the first time, my list of things to anticipate is much longer than this time last year. My daughter-in-love, aptly named Valentina, texted me a picture …
Pack Your Bags
We live by a lake but we travel to the ocean and we pay handsomely for the view. Even a peek above rooftops or between high rises costs a premium. We have potable tap water piped into our homes yet we purchase bottled drinking water by the gallon or the ounce. Marketing isn’t entirely to …
Still Standing
Wise Man And The Foolish Man - YouTube Music The wise man built his house upon the rock The wise man built his house upon the rock The wise man built his house upon the rock And the rains came tumbling down The rains came down and the floods came up The rains came down …
Who Is Jesus?
My grandson will experience his first egg hunt this Easter Sunday. The younger cousins, the ones his mother used to hide eggs for, are making plans. At only eight months, it’s more for us than for him, but there’ll be plenty of pictures. The eggs will be “hidden” in plain sight for him to pick …
Good Night
Good night, God bless you, sweet dreams Last night I struggled to fall asleep again. I’d almost forgotten how frustrating it feels to long for sleep. My body needs rest and my mind agrees so I toss and turn, unable to find stillness. Finally I get up and head for the kitchen, determined to be …
Fan the Flame
My freshman year, the egg in a bottle experiment was banned from the science fair. Overused and unoriginal were descriptors my teacher chose even though no one in my grade had seen it barring those with older sibling. That may have been when I first learned that a fire needs oxygen to burn because the …
Simultaneously Present
My son and daughter-in-law and I stood on the water’s edge at the coast after dinner this week enjoying a video chat with my daughter and grandson in the mountains. He smiled as he recognized our voices and caught a glimpse of our faces. We watched as he pushed up onto hands and knees, ready …
Learning
Peekaboo with my six month old grandson has progressed from a quick distraction to a game of predictive analytics, much like the game my smart phone plays as I begin typing any given word into a text box. In spite of the fact that I have a son and a son-in-law named Jacob which I …
Feel The Heat
What does pure, unadulterated faith look like, the faith of a child that Jesus commended? I saw it in the face of my eighteen year old son and heard it in his voice, as we contemplated the possibility of brain surgery after eight years of tweaking and changing medications failed to stop his seizures. I …
I Hear You
Six month old Thomas lets us knows it’s time to eat when he’s hungry. Once he’s buckled into his high chair, he stops his fussing when his momma folds his little hands together as he looks right into her face as she first asks a blessing on his food. “Thank You, Jesus, for our food. …
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