Pulled under by a powerful riptide, my thoughts dragged me from the peaceful shores of Truth. Efforts to control my thoughts buoyed me for quick gulps of air and the hope of escape. However, as quickly as I found relief, the black water of fear eclipsed the sunshine as I…
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Ingredients for Successful Service
“Prepare this healthy, delicious meal in seventeen minutes,” the host of the television cooking show claims. Yeah, right. Why did it take me ninety minutes, and why did my meal lack the color and glamour of the one on the screen? Don’t you love to watch celebrity chefs produce picture-perfect…
Sharing Joy in January
She plodded down the hall of the rehab hospital with the help of a walker, head bent downward, each step an effort. When she passed me, she looked up with a radiant smile and answered my greeting with a cheery “Good morning! How are you?” As my family would predict,…
Welcome the New Year with a Decluttered Heart
The tall, imposing cabinet would make a wonderful wardrobe passage to Narnia in a stage play of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Our huge cherry entertainment center fought for space with the new sofas we added to the living room; it demanded notice and changed comfortable into crowded.…
The Loving Hands of Christmas
With rounded shoulders, she stooped low to scoop pecans from the leaf-covered ground of the orchard. My maternal grandmother, poor by the world’s standards, shelled pecans with arthritic, age spot speckled hands. She then placed them in dime-store containers and presented them as Christmas gifts. Pain-filled hands laboring to give. …