I watch my girls with my grandchildren. They are often so overwhelmed and I remember! Sleep is elusive and days are long because nights are short. Like so many of us, mothers before them, they’ve been entrusted with these precious lives. They carried them inside their own bodies for nearly a year and now that …
Perfecting Holiness
https://videopress.com/v/tCLjsTgx?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Proverbs 16:24 My life has been lived like yours, one day at a time, hour by hour, minute by minute. I do not spend much time looking back because I have an enemy, same as you, who loves to highlight and bombard me with my worst moments, never my victories or the long months …
All My Days
How would you sum up your lifetime in just a few paragraphs? I am nearing the end of my fifty-fifth year and though I feel what the psalmist asserts, my life is but a breath, at the same time my years have been full and rich in both experience and emotion. My grandchildren have only …
Get Up, Old Man
My Papa taught me many things over the course of his lifetime. I was barely writing numbers and he was explaining algebra and geometry, not by name but by practical application. He took me to work with him at Cone Mills more than once and proudly showed me how every piece of equipment worked and …
Can I Trust You?
My life from age twelve asked, “Can I trust you?” I asked myself this of every human being I encountered, particularly males. Everyone became suspect, even God. I fear I am not alone in my questioning. You have been hurt, have you not? Your trust has been shaken by sickness, circumstance, or sin in the …
The Wrong Side of the Bed
Amelia has never been a great sleeper but at two, her inconsolable acid hours gravitated from evenings to mornings. You just never know whether she will wake all smiles, thoroughly rested and ready for the day or refuse breakfast with wails and sobs that defy consolation. Some mornings she just wakes up on the wrong …
Over Reacting
In the south, we know how to prepare for ice and snow, but when it comes to hurricanes, well, that’s a different story entirely. We’ve owned a home on the coast so we’ve done due diligence. We’ve installed storm shutters and breakaway lower walls. We’ve dealt with evacuation and flooding, eroding dunes, tainted water, and …
Strength of Bread
When I was a teenager, my Granny decided it was time I learned to make her Sunday biscuits, a staple at every family gathering. She sat at the kitchen table and watched, giving me step by step directions as I gathered and added the ingredients and began to work the dough. Before I felt I …
Valley of Blessing
I first met my daughter standing by a stop sign on Hardin Road in a misting rain. Although we’d never met, I put my arm around her and asked if she was alright. I knew a little about her from my son. I’d heard them talking on the phone. He met her at work and …
Saving Siri
“Mumble-mumble-mumble wock,” mimicked Thomas, copycatting Amelia yet again. He thinks it’s funny to repeat what he thinks he hears. Younger by almost a year, she speaks very well but he’s made a game of echoing her baby talk and she picks up the phrase and they repeat it over and over laughing all the while. …
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