Dear Margo, It’s been a full year since you left this mortal coil so unexpectedly and suddenly. A year without you. A year without your cheery waves as I drove by on one of your many miles of walks. A year without those wonderful hugs and sweet hellos. A year without you forgetting things behind […]
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Are you sure?
Are you sure? It’s just three little words, but there is a great deal of hesitation in them. Certainly, we want certainty, but sometimes…. We just aren’t able to know for sure. We overthink. We question ourselves. We question others. We even question God. We have identity crises. We make excuses for ourselves and our […]
Love unconditionally
It has always amazed me that the English language only has one word for love, even though there are different degrees of love, so to speak. I love my family. I love my one true love. I love chocolate. I love to write. Yet other languages have many words for love, including Greek. There is […]
I can do all of this? Really??????
I live in the Hawkeye state, otherwise known as Iowa. Even I, who cares very little for sports, have heard of the prowess of the female American basketball player Caitlin Clark. It’s hard not to miss it, since her name has been mentioned a great deal this year at both the collegiate and the professional […]
Just keep following the rhythm
The other day, I was sent a text from a young lady that I look upon as a daughter. She mentioned that since she was “not good” at speaking in front of a group “like you are,” she didn’t want to be asked to ever do it again, because she felt she messed up on […]
Go ye into all the world….
The other day, while the other half and I were out and about, we came back from shopping at one of the bigger farm stores in the area to find someone had crammed a cartoon gospel tract into the handle of the driver’s side door of the other half’s vehicle. The tract was a reminder […]
Perfection in the celebration
This past week, there was a celebration at the tiny church the other half and I attend in my little swath of the Midwest. Ten years ago, our current pastor started his walk with us. In those ten years, there have been numerous high points and low points, both globally and a little closer to […]
By our hate? Wait, no. Love. LOVE!!
I follow a former Orthodox priest-turned-writer named Father Nathan Monk on a few of my social media accounts. Now, by his own admission, he is an atheist and has been for ten years or so, but he is one of the most patient writers in regards to Christianity and Biblical interpretations I have read in […]
Defeating giants
Like all people, I had times where I felt like I did not fit in. I don’t fit the “norm” on what femininity should look like. Yes, I loved to play with Barbies as a child, but I also played with action figures and pretended I was a superhero. I have fond memories of being […]
Chicago
Having a family history that spans pretty much one state (I’m looking at you, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!) and the Eastern Seaboard, I never really thought much about the city of Chicago. I read about it for my history classes. I learned facts that seemed to go in one ear and then out the other about […]