Category: Flowers for MY Pastor’s Wife

I grew up in a small house with lots of land. My grandparents lived next door and Grampa farmed, gardened, raised chickens and pigeons, and…

View More A Lesson from Hide and Seek

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 Turn on the news these days, or read social media, and…

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Music is a beautiful language which speaks to our souls. Words on the wings of music often break through and affect me much deeper than…

View More Fighting Within the Family of God

I’ve been reading the biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables series. If you haven’t read the series (which I…

View More Everyday Friends

My daughter, as a student and as a teacher, has always loved the start of a new school year. New, clean pages in notebooks. A…

View More Seeing 2020 Through God’s Eyes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a…

View More For Crying Out Loud

Ugly sweaters, white elephant gifts – our creative culture has figured out a way to make the worst gifts useable. Not valuable. Useable.  Each of…

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Each summer for the last thirty-seven years I’ve had the privilege of serving a week or two at a girls’ camp in Illinois. While fun,…

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Have you ever noticed how many times trees are mentioned in the Bible? BibleGateway brings up 269 references for the word tree. (Don’t worry. I’ll…

View More The Joy of Trees

Hebrews 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.  And let us consider how to stir up one…

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