"If you have a message of encouragement for the people, please speak." Acts 13:15
Posted in books on Jan 26th, 2010
It’s all too familiar to me – what I call the treadmill syndrome of waking and eating and sleeping with life rushing by in my peripheral view. How many nights have I laid my head on the pillow resolving that tomorrow will be different? Tomorrow I will sit down to read picture books to my [...]
Posted in Happenings, family on Jan 19th, 2010
The headlights from behind flashed in a bright, frenzied pattern. Checking the rear-view mirror, I saw Courtney’s car pull to the side of the road, her brights still flashing off and on. I pulled onto the shoulder of the desolate two-lane highway, darkness cloaking the landscape. The lights from our two cars illuminated the black [...]
Posted in Reflection, family on Jan 3rd, 2010
Our Christmas tree was a little Charlie-Brownish this year. And if I’m honest, it was last year, too. Decorated almost entirely by the younger members of our family, the ornaments clung in tight little groupings on low-hanging branches, ribbons swirled through limbs in awkward, uneven loops, and gaping holes revealed the window beyond as Corbin [...]