We’re rounding the bend into another holiday season. Once again, we reflect on the previous twelve months. We wonder how they flew by so fast and marvel that we survived. It’s been a lot of a lot. It’s easy, at times like this, when there’s so much unrest, injustice, and fear, to keep peeking around…
If I’m fortunate this morning, I’m sitting on my deck in a bright yellow Adirondack chair, beginning my day with a cup of Earl Grey. I’m hearing the cardinal’s quick, cheerful chirp. If I’m exceptionally lucky, I see the flash of a ruby chest triangle on a rose-breasted grosbeak at my feeder. I look out…
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” (1 Cor. 15:54-55 ESV) I have reluctantly become a bit of an expert on…
I’m sitting in my dining room this morning as I write this. It might be my favorite room in our house because it’s the only one that stays clean. We recently moved to Korea, and have finally settled into an American-style home. I have decorated and made things as comfortable as I can for the…
Do you have a dream vacation destination? When my husband and I began discussing where we wanted to celebrate our twentieth anniversary, I skipped right past Mexico, Hawaii, and cruises around the Caribbean. When I thought about a dream vacation worthy of twenty years of marriage, I thought of Maine. Why Maine? My husband asked…