“You need to start investing for your future right now.” That was some wise advice Greg and I received when we went through marriage counseling. To a couple of twenty year olds, the future seemed so far off; yet we took the advice and started putting away ten percent of every paycheck. The amount seemed so small,…
Freedom: the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint. Freedom is a defining word for me. A word I want to understand fully this year. I word I want to live. Freedom: not confined by Lynn and my human limitations, but instead free to be an expression…
Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a FaceBook message saying she was reading her Bible in the book of Joel. Chapter two verses twelve and thirteen really stood out to her. I like fourteen too. “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return…
His voice was shaking as he said my name. “Mom, I’ve got some bad news.” When your teen son says those words scary things of the worst sort run through your mind. “What happened?” I asked, not really wanting the answer. Zach’s exams at his mountain college were postponed due to the thigh high snow….
It’s been in my back pocket for days. My Christmas list. Lists of gifts I am giving and gifts left to buy. It’s there as a reminder; when the time and item is right, I make my purchase and cross it off. It’s there for safe keeping. I don’t want those I’m giving to finding…
We’ve all got enemies. Our past. Our boss. Sometimes it feels like the enemy is in our own family. For many of us, it’s hiding in our frig. In my case, it hides in the large silver pot on the top shelf of my pantry. I pretend to hide chocolate and other goodies in there…