Valentine’s Day came and went. Messages of romantic love and Pal-entine love, even Gal-entine love were sent across the cyber spaces among young and old alike. Bouquets of red roses and heart-shaped boxes of milk chocolates, edible arrangements of chocolate-covered strawberries, candle-lit dinners and whispers of “I Love You”…. We love our families, our friends,…
Little Wife was looking in the old photo album the other day. She usually loved to look at the pictures of when she and her friends were young children and teenagers. What fun they had together, playing and running and riding their bikes and building tree houses in the woods with the other children and…
Like a child wanders from her mother in the store to look at what catches her fancy, so am I when I glance at the trappings of this world…and I’m gone in a flash. Just like that child on a path leading to destruction… It looks like a vast beach, and soon I realize the…
Okay, my imagination or has the month of January 2022 actually turned out to be THREE months rolled into one? The longest 31-day span in history, I believe. Time has stood still and perhaps not in a good way this month. A month of cold, a month of sickness, a month of sameness if you…
Little Wife set her empty wine glass on the kitchen table and gazed sadly out the window at the falling snow. The weak mid-January sunlight filtered through the cold clouds barely reaching the ground before dissolving into another gray afternoon. “Well,” she thought to herself, “If I’ve had one glass and broke my new year…
I was sharing holiday greetings and sentiments with my friend the other day. She is an amazing person who has overcome many health and medical obstacles in the past couple years, including visual impairment due to diabetes and a broken hip from a hit and run driver as she was crossing the street. We were…
“Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” Can you hear that song in your head? Of course, it’s from an old Disney cartoon — the three little pigs are arrogantly singing about how brave they are until the Big Bad Wolf actually shows up at their door. Yikes! Do you have a big bad wolf…
“Hurry, hurry, hurry,” Little Wife whispered to herself. With just two days left before Christmas, Little Wife was in a terrible bind. She wanted to buy the perfect gift for Big Man, but the stores were all out of the popular tech gifts, the 3X buffalo plaid flannels, his favorite vinyls and vintage whiskey. Little…
It has taken me a lifetime to finally be broken and humbled to the fact that I am not the author of my life story. I am not the one who controls all life circumstances. In my shame and insecurity I had used the defense “I can just handle things my way, especially with…
Mary and Joseph were expecting. Maybe they weren’t exactly sure of the full implications of the baby she carried in her womb, but they had the word of God, the promises of God that this Son would be the Messiah who would save all mankind. They expected that God would keep His promises to them: …