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“Hope” is the thing with feathers– That perches in the soul– And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. This portion of the poem by Emily Dickinson resonates with us for a lot of reasons. One reason is that we can’t always identify what causes us to have hope. We don’t […]
Sometime ago, I wrote a book called The Heart-Shaped Life Daily Devotional. My hope with this series of books was to remind each of us that it’s okay to have a soft heart. In fact, it’s more than okay. In God’s view, it’s the only way your heart is open enough to be shaped at […]
Psalm 139:13-14 says, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works.” Most of us don’t walk around imagining how amazing we are. We seldom contemplate the incredible mystery of how we were formed in the […]
Recently, I was drawn to a reading in Psalm 56:8, which says this: “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” When I shared this Scripture with my husband, he told me this verse depicts a literal thing. In […]
Summertime often brings a flurry of special events, and weddings are high on the list. Now that Covid 19 does not restrict us quite as much, we might find ourselves blessed to be part of weddings again. As I was thinking about that, I remembered a piece written some time ago by Ryan and Selena […]
Most of us are good talkers. We like to share our stories and our accomplishments. We are doers and if we look at our calendars, it’s safe to say we keep busy with the “doing” all day long. In conversation with others, we are often so lost in our own thoughts, we are scarcely able […]
One of my favorite Berenstain Bears books is the one that tells the story of how Little Bear gets inside a box, gets loaded onto a truck outside, and eventually gets turned upside down. When Little Bear’s mother finds him at the end of the story, he happily announces, “Mama, mama, I was inside a […]
I grew up in a farming community called Sand Hill. We lived in an old house that sat directly across from a private saw mill, and was surrounded by rolling hills. With a little imagination you could wander out to the meadow where the blueberries grew and climb on big rocks. Those rocks often turned […]
A while back, I was honored to be inducted into the Unatego High School Hall of Distinction for my work in writing and publishing. It was a blessing to me, and gave me an opportunity to reconnect with old friends, and the community that nurtured me. I was invited to speak to a couple of […]
Remember the little fable about the blind men who come upon an elephant? The men were trying to determine what an elephant is like. Each described the elephant from a different point of view. They concluded that the elephant was perhaps like a rope, or a basket, or a pipe. As one writer put it: […]
