Relatively speaking
While talking to a friend the other day and standing eye-to-eye, I was amazed by how tall I am. With her just barely skimming 5 feet in...
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- Sep 27, 2021
A little help
As I was sitting on the sidelines of one of my sons’ soccer games recently, I heard a familiar question, “A little help?” It was part...
- Aug 31, 2020
Farther along
During recent storms (or threats of storms), I found myself looking at the weather app on my phone several times a day. Knowing that my...
- Dec 9, 2019
Potluck
One of life’s greatest joys is a good old fashioned potluck supper. I have vivid memories of these meals in the various churches my...
- Jul 8, 2019
Volunteer tomato plants
I aspire to have a magnificent garden someday. In my imagination, I grow heirloom tomatoes, delicate lettuces and beans with cranberry...
- Feb 15, 2019
Cheerleader
I was never a cheerleader in school. For most anyone who knows me (or who has seen me attempt to clap and sing simultaneously in church...
- Apr 22, 2018
My favorite teens
For as long as I can remember, I knew I wanted to be a mom, partly because I always enjoyed being around younger kids. I transitioned...
- Sep 28, 2017
Best friend
Most everyone can point to an early friendship that forever shaped them. Besides my sisters, my earliest friends were Briony and Stacy....
- Aug 2, 2016
Movement
When I was a little girl, my family would make the trip from our home in Nashville to our grandparents’ house in Danville, Illinois,...
- Dec 1, 2015
Hilltop Friends
Moses was tired. He was old. His belly was full of his breakfast—wafers of manna and the water that poured from a rock. As he climbed to...
- Oct 16, 2015
In Their Shoes
We had a visitor in Sunday school last week. A mom I’d never seen before dropped off her 5-year old daughter and left us to get...
- Aug 6, 2015
Sharing our Sorrows
I am the queen of strange injuries, allergies, and illnesses. For instance, a few weeks ago, while drying the dishes after my...
- May 29, 2015
Friends
Ever since I can remember, I have been blessed with great friends. I attended the same school from second grade through college, so I...
- Sep 8, 2014
Community
I’m always amazed to look up in the sky and see a large hawk attempting to escape from his scrawny songbird tormentors. (If you’re not...
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