Are you a planner? An organized woman whose life runs on a schedule that would make the airline industry jealous? Do you have your life arranged so well that you can hit your calendar with a dart and know exactly where you’ll be and what you’ll be doing no matter which square it hits? I…
My ten-year-old son is a rule follower. The world is very black-and-white in his young mind. There are good guys and there are bad guys, and there is a big difference between the two. Not only does he not know the word “nuance,” he cannot comprehend that people cannot be sorted into only two categories….
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” ~Mother Teresa When I first met my sweet hubby, J, I fell hard for his beautiful heart. He hardly had two pennies to his name, but he had a heart of pure gold, and I was just plain smitten. He also had the tendency…
It was a Monday. We’ve all had them, those Mondays that begin with disarray and distraction and feel like an endless loop of chaos and confusion certain to bleed over into the rest of the week. Every conceivable thing that can go wrong does, with a few surprises thrown in. I’m actually pretty used to…
“My command is this: Love one another as I have loved you.” (John 15:12 NIV) A girlfriend of mine (let’s call her Jane) told me a story recently about how she and her family have basically gone kosher. They have a friend living with them who is kosher, and he was uncomfortable cooking in their…
My husband gently shook my arm, and I opened my sleepy eyes. It took a minute to focus and process what I saw outside the car window. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought I was still dreaming. It looked as if we had been transported back in time and across the ocean….