My husband was enrolled in Genetics, the study of inherited characteristics, in medical school when we started making plans for a family. We spent our evenings talking about dominant and recessive traits and which we possessed and would likely be passed on to our children. No amount of imagining could have prepared us for the …
Defining Moments
Becoming a grandmother has quickly become one of those moments in life that changes everything! I’ve spent months preparing for it and thinking about it and still it seems surreal. I’ve looked forward to our grandson’s arrival since a few weeks after his conception, but until I held him in my arms, I didn’t really …
God Knows
Last week, two packages didn’t arrive the day we expected, but the next day my husband discovered them at our neighbor’s front door. We’re at the end of the road, so it’s easy enough to spot the mistake. Nonetheless it’s frustrating. We’re definitely spoiled to the convenience of home delivery! Packages follow us where we …
God Can Be Trusted
My hematology oncologist, Expo marker in hand, began explaining my diagnosis while writing what looked like chemical symbols on a white board, alphanumeric with superscripts. His pronounced accent and the mind-numbing shock that comes with hearing you have advanced stage cancer made me feel like the proverbial deer in the headlights. I sat next to …
Good Figs
Guest Post by Kimberly J. Branham My mother-in-law and father-in-law have several fig trees. Once a year, they begin to bear fruit. My daughter and I love figs, so we anxiously await the day when they are ripe and ready to enjoy. There is almost nothing better than a perfectly ripe fig! Equally true, there …
Insurance
When I was in 5th grade, the Gideons still came into public schools to distribute personal New Testaments to any child who wanted a copy of God’s Word free of charge. I don’t remember anyone in my class declining the offer and we each went home that day with God’s Word in hand, imitation leather …
Story
When our children were small, I had a hundred things to relate to my husband every evening when he walked in the door from work. None of them were mind blowing or ground breaking. Simple things like whose tooth was loose or who took a first step or used the potty by themselves or ate …
Acknowledge
“And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.”Philippians 1:12 NLThttps://www.bible.com/116/php.1.12.nlt I love to give gifts but I’m terrible at surprises! I put off shopping too far in advance because even if I find the perfect thing, (especially …
Splendor
I am not musically gifted but I love to sing. I took several years of piano lessons and my fingers instinctively follow music as if I’m playing, but I never really got past chopsticks. My babies were serenaded with hymns and worship songs rather than lullabies as I rocked them to sleep, the lyrics a …
Parched
Patches of brown grass crunch beneath my feet. The sunsets I love are harshest on my backyard. The soil was prepared for bermuda sod this time last year but a heavy rain the night before washed ruts down the gentle slope, leaving the ground underneath uneven. I walk the two hundred feet from fence to …
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