This will not be a venting of my own frustrations. I posted an article on April 13th   that prompted someone to ask, “Is it really wrong to vent our frustrations?” The answer isn’t a simple yes or no. It has a whole lot to do with who we vent to and what our…

  Math was never my best subject. Then I got married and I got confused because it was my husband who taught me that 1 + 1 = 1 and he is good at math. One night several years ago I went to my husband about someone I felt had wronged me in some way…

  I recently talked to a discouraged friend. A project for which she is organizing help is suffering from a lack of response and also from some serious back-pedaling. Where she thought everything was just about prepared, she now finds twice the work to do herself and has truly lost her delight in the project. In…

  My husband and I are planning to attend our church’s Good Friday services. At the beginning of the week I asked about inviting our Young Adult Small Group over afterwards. We would usually meet on Sunday night but had cancelled so we could all be with our families on Easter. As I was talking…

  Today I got to see a friend I hadn’t seen in a number of months. She told me about feeling like she was in high school because one friend found out that she had gone to lunch and shopping with another friend and wasn’t speaking to her because of it – these are ladies…

Psalm 84:5 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. As I read this verse I was reminded of the words of a song quoting another verse that says, “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end.” (Lamentations…