The other day, as I was vacuuming up remodeling debris in the kitchen and Christmas tree needles in the living room, I was thinking about a set of circumstances over which I have no control.
As often happens when I’m vacuuming, one thought led to another and soon a second situation that also is totally out of my hands—one that I’ve been praying about for what seems like a really long time—came to mind.
A few months ago, an advertising message on the side of a truck caught my eye. It was for one of those remediation companies that comes into your house after your basement has flooded to clean up the mess. They pull up the soggy carpet, remove the baseboard, drill air …
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and although the writer in me doesn’t usually don’t agree, I have to say that the following photo pretty much sums up life in the Flowers household right now. We’ve been remodeling our kitchen this fall. Randy is doing much of …
It might be a little early to be talking about choosing a new word of the year for 2020. But perhaps it’s not too soon to take a quick look back, to briefly examine how my OneWord for this year helped me in ways I never expected. Truth be told, …
Several years ago, I was in my daughter’s room one night before bedtime. I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but I was trying to convince her not to elevate celebrities or think that their lives are better than hers. “Just like everyone else,” I told her, “they …
These days, there’s a whole lot swirling around in my head, my heart and even in my home, where the kitchen is under construction and everything seems to be out of place and covered in dust. The good news is that the mess, while inconvenient and distracting, has not derailed …