My daughter should have won an award for the most exuberant customer of the year. She just turned two and part of her birthday gift was a trip to an aquarium in the Smokies. She was ecstatic. Every tank was met with shrieks of joy and exclamations of, “WOW, big fish!” Her eyes were shining and she…
Every morning my dog waits patiently to be let outside for his morning explorations. When I open the back door, he can’t contain his excitement and virtually bursts out into the yard. He looks almost like a deer as he leaps to the fence to see if his doggy neighbor is outside. Then he jumps…
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…
I am not an avid television watcher; the TV is rarely on in our home. However, this month it will be on non-stop all day. Why? The Olympics. I love watching the Olympics! I enjoy watching the athletes who have spent hours training to perform in a sporting event they have dreamed of for years….
“A cheerful heart is good medicine.” ~Proverbs 17:22 NIV When my mother arrived at the hospital for my birth, she was accompanied by her mother because my father was miles away finishing seminary. (Please note, seminary.) My grandmother—whom I suspect was none too happy my father was, in her mind, AWOL—was so discombobulated that she…
“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise;…