We heard from our daughter today!

If you are reading this you probably know us well enough to know that we do not have a daughter.  Or at least we have never given birth to a daughter or legally adopted one.  But we have had a daughter of our heart for about 13 years now.B only lived in our home for a...

Deny you Lord? Not Me!

I recently finished reading through the Gospel of Mark, but am still working through some of the insights I gained.  For instance, in reading the passages detailing Jesus’ last days before He died I read again of Peter’s denial, three times over, that he...

Thoughts on the Eve

Here I am on the eve of starting a new year of life.  I used to say that I was born to be older.  I was never one who was bothered to approach or celebrate “milestone birthdays.”  I thought it was great to turn 21, 30, 40, and even 50 was good.  Now that I...

This Man

Yes, National Coffee Day was a great reason to celebrate on Monday, and then there’s Columbus Day coming up, and the World Series, and all kinds of reasons we can find to celebrate – but today, yes today October 1 I have THE BEST reason of all to celebrate...

This is the Simple Life

Yesterday I repeatedly heard the phrase,”a simple life.”  This morning I woke up ruminating on those words and wondered what would a simple life look like for me?  My mind began to think about limiting multi tasking, reducing the amount of electronic...