The thought often crosses my mind when I hear about someone who is fighting a devastating disease, navigating an arduous season of care-giving or reeling from a sudden tragic loss.
I can’t imagine facing something like that. I don’t think I could do it.
Maybe you have had similar thoughts. We look at others, admire their tenacity and faith in the midst of trials, and think if that happened to us, we’d be toast.
There are years that go by in a blink and you don’t remember much of them, just that they happened and that you’re ready to move on to the next grade, the next age, the next thing that might be interesting or exciting. Then there are years that are significant, …
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. So the old Christmas hymn goes, and what a timely thought during these troubled and tumultuous days. In recent months, I’ve read, heard and found myself thinking phrases like, “We all need to …” or, “If only people …
Once the Christmas decorations are put away and the last pine needles swept out the front door, Randy starts talking about spring. He’s done with winter; he’s ready for sunny skies, gentle breezes and warmer temperatures. Not me. Especially this winter, when we didn’t get our first real snowfall until …
The what-ifs have loomed large and scary for a long while, haven’t they? I wrote about this several months ago, about how 2020 was the year when I finally decided to get serious about trying to let tomorrow worry about itself. (Better late than never, right? See here and here …
The week I turned 50, my blog had an identity crisis. I’ll spare you the techie details; let’s just say that, between the original problem and the mistakes I made trying to fix it, I wasted a great deal of time I could have spent doing any number of more …