5 Things My Mother Did Right
This morning I was talking to a young Mom who made a statement about wishing that her mother had been more pro-active in teaching her how to clean. I recalled for her how my mother did it for me and how I regret that I did not follow suit with my own children. It wasn’t…
Read MoreWhere Does It Hurt?
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:4 The room was filling with Moms, Grandmas, sisters, children, nurses, school teachers, and a…
Read MoreNo Fruit for the Sluggard
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him. Proverbs 10:26 Work. Discipline. Self-control. Responsibility. I live this blessed life where I get to work/do ministry from home. I love it but there are very difficult aspects of it. The most difficult being that…
Read MoreCaught and Taught
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Deuteronomy 6:7 A woman stood up at a recent event I attended and said, “I always understood growing up…
Read MoreSweet, but Fake
Getting off the fake stuff is hard. I am a tea-aholic. I drink several cups a day and I have been drinking it with Sweet and Low to sweeten it for years – lots of years. It is the way I like it. Last year my twin sister died of pancreatic cancer. She,…
Read MoreNothin’ Like Your Mom
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. Proverbs 19:13 He had been in the criminal justice system for three or four years and he was only fifteen. If the average middle class American had seen him they would think, “thug.” I can’t remember the…
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