The nightly trip to the bathroom wasn’t an unusual event but realizing that I was wide awake at 3:30 am and might as well get up for the day was an unusual idea. The day before I had moved from my home of the past thirty-four years into what had…
It appears that our society has lost the ability to be civil and speak with decency and respect. We are deluged daily with news that is causing anxiety and anger levels to rise within us. Is anyone else tired of it? The verse in this graphic spurs me on to ask…
“Oh, you’re the pastor’s wife.” “Um, professor. I heard you were a hard grader.” “Isn’t he the one who flunked math?” “Who does she think she is, taking over the club like that?” “She’s retired. She can help us out. She has a lot of free time.” “He’s the middle…
This past weekend I was shopping with my husband and as I was looking thru a stack of clearance books in one aisle, I heard a stern man’s voice on the other side of the aisle, “Son, put that back”, the father continued, “we do not steal, son!” Again, his…
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the…