Let’s Ask–M.A.S.K.?
“For you were called to freedom, brothers [and sisters]. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another” (Galatians 5:3). For Christmas, we bought each of our children and their significant others masks we thought fit…
2020-Hindsight for Hope in the New Year
Twenty-twenty Hindsight–(n.) seeing clearly, with full understanding, a situation or event only after it has happened. 2020–a really, really hard year; a thing of the past. One can only have twenty-twenty hindsight once he or she has stepped into a new situation. Like stepping over the…
A Christmas Love Letter to Devon Mara-Leigh
On this final week of Advent, I’m sharing from the depths of a mother’s LOVE–which remains, even all these years later, a mystery to me. One of my life’s greatest teachers was a baby who I held only hours, who lived only weeks. Still, her…
Seth Cook–Joyous Giant
On this third week of Advent, what better time to share some good news that brings great joy? Introducing our friend Seth who–though only 3 feet tall and a mere 25 pounds–was a JOY-GIANT! (Please read to the end to discover a link where you,…
O Come! O Come!
Throughout the Advent season, I’m reflecting on some of those whom I’ve been blessed to know who serve as reminders–both in their living, as well as in their dying–of Jesus’ purpose for coming to earth so long ago. (Last week’s was about my dear friend…
So Shall Your Strength Be!
“Your sandals shall be iron and bronze; as your days, so shall your strength be” (Deut. 33:25–NKJV). I have a new buddy named Drake Dean. Has as a superhero ring, don’t you think? He’s the son of our son Ian’s fiancé, and his big thing…
Life in a Fishbowl
“… for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or…
A Letter to Ian–Looking At, Looking On
Dear Ian, Looking at God’s Word years prior to your birth, our gracious Father allowed me to see you there on the pages. Not that I knew your name (Remember our song?), nor did I know what you would look like, what beautiful features you’d possess….
An Imperishable Beauty
“But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious” (I Peter 4:4—ESV). Walking side by side with her father in the October sunshine, the princess stooped…
Because of LOVE…
Though weeping endures for the night, joy comes in the morning (Psalm 30:5b). Rain pelted my windshield as tears, too, left their trails. Home from having taken our daughter to school, I sat a moment, only to discover a weight of heaviness in the too…