The moving van pulled up to our house for the third time in twenty-one months. Without any job prospects in sight, we were moving out of the house we had been renting in Kentucky and back into the home we had been unable to sell in Virginia. The past few months had been hard. We…
Our flatlander family vacationed in the mountains for the first time this year. My prairie children, at home in the endless grass and fields of our North Dakota farm, were stunned at the height and majesty of the mountains. They exclaimed over the steepness of the trails as we hiked. Mom couldn’t exclaim; she was…
I’m working on reading through the Bible. Front to back, slowly but surely. To be certain, going through it this way has been different, but, this approach also means I am getting to experience God’s Word in ways I never have before. One of my favorite parts of reading the books “in order” is that…
My cursor hovered over the word Send. My fingers felt frozen in place, unable to reply to the email and deliver my decision. Maybe it wasn’t a life-or-death decision, but it wasn’t a trivial, what-am-I-going-to-cook-for-dinner-type decision, either. Cautious person that I am, I’d deliberated for a long time. I’d made lists of pros and cons…
Jungle weeds. At least, that is what I called them. They were huge. As tall as the top of our deck and blocking the view of our neighbors. In my head, I figured they had come from the island of King Kong. You know, the place in that movie with Jack Black where the bugs…
This June, educational leaders in many states canceled graduations. There were no walks across a stage. No cheers or cowbells. No congratulatory lines with hugs. Although I don’t remember it, my mom tells a story of my preschool graduation. In my purple robe and hat, I asked, “Do I go to college now?” I knew…