For Our “Doctor” Daddies
***Although this was written twenty years ago to honor my dad’s retirement from thirty years of work as a general surgeon in Miami County, Ohio, it applies not only to him but also to my dear husband who is also a compassionate physician and wonderful…
Fear Not, For He Knows Every Hair on My Head
When I am afraid, I will trust in You (Psalm 56:3). Though voted “Best Hair” his senior year of high school, Bill began losing his the moment he started college. Thus, he resorted to shaving his head some years later, a look that is quite…
GRACE–What God Can Do With A Gap
*** This is written after considering further my most recent post regarding George Floyd and our friend Rich Baker. Rather than amending that one, I’ll expound here.*** *** Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old is gone, the new…
Breathing Heaven’s Breath and Bouncing Superballs
But now, thus says the LORD, who created you… And He who formed you…: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine (Isaiah 43:1–NKJV). Two men–one black, one white–who never met on this earth are sharing the joys…
Thank You for ‘This Life We Share’!
Our lives on this planet are beautifully and intricately interconnected. God never intended his children to navigate the journey alone. May others experience his love through us.~~From Maggie Wallem Rowe’s This Life We Share. How could I have known that, by attending a small group session on creative writing,…
An Open Letter to the House Finch
To Whom It May Concern: Why? Why, I ask, do you continue, year after year, to build nests in all four of my front porch ferns? I earnestly beseech thee. Truth is, I have trouble with this; thus, I’m writing to you today to address…
Sewn in Sorrow, Bound with Joy
Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy (Psalm 126:5). Holding fabric in hand, feeling it slip through fingers as foot pushed the pedal, the sewing machine did its magic. The quiet whir of its motor gentle, like the man whose clothing I…
Another Season Of Isolation–Tracing the Moon’s Path (Part 3)
You are the light of the world… (Matthew 5:13a). I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength (Phil. 3:14). We’d come out of quarantine, though just for the weekend–a family friend having offered us their unoccupied North Carolina beach house. Honestly, we nearly…
Another Season of Isolation–SISU Sewn by Sister Love (Part 2)
Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other. ~~ “The Serenity Prayer” by Reinhold Niebuhr In the upstairs landing of our family farm–the Heikkinen Estate–there’s a…
Another Season of Isolation–For Such a Time as This (Part 1)
And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this (Esther 4:14b–NIV)? She was far from royalty, though Esther was her name. Born on April 2, 1919 to Finnish immigrants in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Esther Karolina…