Some of my favorite memories of school were forays into the magic language of poetry. This week's podcast was about direction, and allowing God to determine our destination. That level of trust, of dependence upon our Father, is not without its challenges and choices, and often we are trying...

I cleaned out my closet a couple of weeks ago and discovered some fabulous scarves and pashminas that my husband brought home to me from Afghanistan where he was deployed several years ago. The scarves are richly woven silk with silver threads throughout, and i have three different ones in two...

A wonderful friend of mine shared with me yesterday that she's landed a new job! It's been a goal of hers for a while, and she was so excited. I am familiar with the company that she's joining, and I offered her some advice based on what.I know about the company and the people who not only...

This week was a hard one for the family.  A family member who has had many health challenges over the last couple of years was admitted to the hospital after a surgery because he had developed MRSA. 

I knew MRSA was serious, but no one I knew well had gone through the infection, so I...

Go to the Ant!

My mother had a serious aversion to what she called "sorriness."

Not sorriness relating to feeling sorrowful or regretful, anguish or heartbreak. No. Sorriness as the state of being worthless and good-for-nothing, related to being lazy, shiftless, and lacking in...

What if I could tell you that I can teach you something that will give you the most success, the most power, the best relationships, the finest things of life? Would you be intrigued? skeptical? It seems we always are looking for the secret sauce that will cut through the process, the...

I will never forget the day I found out I needed glasses. I literally had no idea!

I was in fifth grade, and I'd always done well academically. So there were no bad grades or reading difficulties to indicate there was a problem. In our little rural school, though, the area health department was...

I've always been fascinated with power of words. I think it began in elementary school and my fascination with Katherine Lee Bates, the author of America, the Beautiful—you know, “O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain.”  As I read about her, I...

Ain’t nobody got time for that

I’ve noticed this summer that I have a very predictable rhythm to my days. My wake-up time will vary slightly, but typically, I’ll get up, spend some quiet time—meditating, reading my devotion or scripture, and quoting scripture declarations...

Sam in the Snow