What Next?
Thursday, May 18th, was Ascension Thursday – the commemorative day when Jesus took His one-way trip back to heaven from whence He came to earth as a baby. Thirty-three years here – Jesus radically taught love, hope, and faith, healing people’s hearts and bodies, and showing us how to be successful in this life. And,…
Dear Bright Eyes
For my godson who is graduating today, my grandson who graduates next week and all graduates:Dear Bright Eyes!You are about to graduate. It feels like you know everything. But what is actually true, you know a little, so it is really important to keep learning. Make every new day a learning experience – learning about…
Up Up & Away
We have been in the Easter season up until today, May 18th, which is notably called “Ascension Thursday”! It has been 40-days since Jesus was raised from the dead and eyewitnesses saw Him showing up to give them His “famous last words”. Acts 1:3 verifies it: “After His suffering, He presented Himself to them and…
Can You Give Me a Hand?
A moving train of people helped our neighbor move from an upper floor to an apartment on the first floor. She merely posted in our residents’ Facebook group: “Many of you have offered to help me move. I am ready to accept help. SO…… if you have a wagon and can carry a couple medium…
Untying the Apron Strings
Mothers’ Day celebrations are behind us so I am recommending that it’s time to untie our “apron strings”. You know the ones we tend to hold on to so tightly when our children are ready to leave the nest. I type this in love because I have precious mamas in my life who are tying…
Have Thine Own Way
That was the title of a classic hymn that speaks to the importance of an attitude of surrendering our ways to God’s BEST ways! “Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way.You are the Potter. I am the clay.Mold me and make me. After Your will.While I am waiting – yielded and still.” That…
Happy Mother’s Day to the Sisterhood!
Happy Mother’s Day to the Sisterhood! A few days ago I spoke about the verb and action-word, mother or mothering, and how we can all (men and women) be participants in encouraging, supporting and loving others. I checked out the history of this day. Anna Jarvis, who had no children of her own, conceived Mother’s…
Seeing is Believing
Yesterday I had my annual eye check up. Thanks be to God I can still see! Ever hear someone say: “I’ll believe it when I see it!” or “Seeing is believing!” That isn’t the posture that pleases God. He is all about seeing but not how well we see with our physical eyes. He wants…
Mothering Isn’t Meant Just for Mothers
My co-worker and I at the family center are having a little conversation about how God formed and knitted us together in our mothers’ wombs. To think that our God of the universe, the same ONE Who created the heavens, the earth, the waters, the stars, the trees, the animals — is the same ONE…
Born to Live this Life
Remember the line by Mother Abbess to Maria in the epic movie “The Sound of Music”? “Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You must face them. You must live the life you were born to live.” Such words of wisdom: “We must live the life we were born to live.” In…