The Generation Gap

Anger,frustration, disappointment, anxiety, impatience; these are all emotions that are regularly a part of most everyone’s day. As I’ve grown in my walk with God, I generally have a better handle on these things but admit that there are days when I struggle with them. Years ago, I met a lady who, when I walked…

I don’t know about everyone else but there are times when I seem to have a fuzzy brain. Usually it is a result of overcommitment, lack of sleep and middle-aged estrogen. Last night, I stood in the kitchen door flicking the light switch, trying to turn off the kitchen light. The problem was that I…

Sign outside a church: When you enter through these doors, you haven’t arrived but you have taken a step in the right direction. It is so easy to think, when things are going well, that we have it all together.  What crushing disappointment it can be when something happens to make us realize that we…

Tweet tweet, chirp, trilllll…. Each morning for the last few weeks this is what I have woken up hearing.  Rain or shine the birds in the trees behind my house are celebrating each new day. So, do I? Every single day I hear those birds.  Every day do I sing out?  Do I proclaim the…

The flour trails from the kitchen down the basement stairs and back up again.  There are tracks through the dining room, living room and into the front hall.  There, in a golden coloured paste is the mixture of kitchen staples that once, so light and powdery, is now firmly glued together with my toddler’s special…

The constant ache and then sudden, excruciating pain of anything cold that ruled my last week is not something I will soon forget. Growing up, I had two traumatic experiences with dentists and consequently, I do not go to the dentist any more often than is absolutely necessary. Normally, our family goes in all together…