If you’d like to understand your relationship with God on a deeper level, get some sheep. Sheep are often thought to be dumb animals, and people who blindly follow along are sometimes referred to as a sheep. For example, someone might say “they’re like sheep led to the slaughter” or someone else might use the…
The invitation came in the mail and immediately sent me spinning down memory lane. How was it already time for our twenty-year high school reunion? Graduation felt like yesterday. It also felt like a completely separate lifetime. As the class of 1998 took to Facebook to share dusty photos dug out of attics and basements,…
“Did we know each other thirty years ago?” My husband and I recently attended a reunion of the 524th Bomb Squadron (BMS) in conjunction with a celebration commemorating the 25th anniversary of the closing of Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Huron. (That’s about knuckle high on your pointer…
Do you ever feel like you’re not enough? Like you’re a big disappointment to the people in your life or even to the people on the outskirts of your life? Like you can’t possibly be or do everything people want or need from you? I just finished watching Brené Brown’s “The Power of Vulnerability” TED…
My family recently visited an all-inclusive resort in Playa Mujeres, Mexico. We were treated to an ocean view, a stocked mini bar—and restroom facilities far fancier than the ones installed in our 115-year-old army-base quarters. The ability to fit two people into the Jacuzzi tub at your hotel when you can’t fit two people in…
Once, in a blaze of book love, I sent a copy of Anne of Green Gables to an eleven-year-old girl I had never met. This happened because of a conversation I had when I was twenty-three, sitting knee-to-knee with an extroverted flight attendant on a plane so small it was termed a “puddle jumper.” The…