Above All, Jesus
This is a dark, dangerous world, Little One. It doesn’t take more than several seconds tuned in to the television to know, and just open the newspaper. But yesterday, despite the heaviness that weighed–the barbell a yoke bearing weights of worry, fear, and sorrow–I found…
The Little Boy and the Kaleidoscope
“… We can be sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good” (Romans 8:28–The Message). The little Boy held the wooden object in his hand, clutching it tightly. “What is it?” he asked his Momma, eyes wide…
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…