I spent the afternoon today with a woman who has two young adult sons, two adopted sons, currently ages 12 and 10, and a 6 1/2 year old. After the adoption was complete she and her husband realized that both boys had “something wrong” and subsequent testing diagnosed fetal alcoholContinue Reading
Is there something you really need or want from God? Do you have unsaved family members? A child or grandchild needing a job? An answer to a medical question? An attitude change toward a situation? Financial provision? The willingness to forgive someone? A new hunger to spend time with God?Continue Reading
One of my favorite places right now is my “floating chair.” For Mother’s Day my family gave me this lawn chair that is engineered in such a way the chair hangs from a pivot at the top, sheltered by an umbrella. It’s the closest thing to a baby swing anContinue Reading
Today I awoke with a bruise on my thumb whose purple color encompasses the entire palm side around to the back. I am almost ashamed to say I’m not sure how a hematoma of this magnitude happened, with its swelling and ugliness. I was doing dishes and must have pinchedContinue Reading
On the Friday of camp I did a devotion with the kids that was about legacy. Some of us receive beautiful legacies – like quilts from great grandparents or a musical talent – and some of us receive bad ones – like anger, abandonment, fear, hatred, etc. For my illustrationContinue Reading
Have you ever had a situation in your life where it seemed there were no easy answers to how to “fix it?” The kind of situation that costs you sleep, causes you to worry, and creates tension in your body? At Friday night’s camp closing program a conflict occurred thatContinue Reading
Sometimes we have to sit still with grateful hearts. Tonight I am just sitting down after a 16 hour day at the end of a very, very busy camp week. Exhaustion is close, clean up is incomplete, children still need to talk to me. Even my dog and cat needContinue Reading
I don’t usually copy whole blogs, but this one was too good to pass up. In Praise of Those Who Work Hard June 16, 2022 by Professor Carol The press abounds in articles about people not wanting to go back to work. Various circumstances come in play, from those abandoning jobs inContinue Reading
Living, Loving God, Our souls cry out in thirst for your Spirit. Your Church is downcast and disturbed by the circumstances we are living through, yet we put our hope in you. It seems the waves and breakers of this era have rolled over us, yet we put our hopeContinue Reading
One of the realities of running a summer arts day camp is that, no matter how many kids you have, you have to have an adequate number of adults to staff the endeavor. God has graciously provided in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. For instance, there is a lady inContinue Reading