It’s Wednesday night and the church building in my tiny town in this swath of the Midwest seems to be hopping, even though it’s one of the smaller ones in town. As children practice learning the fruit of patience by playing silent ball and memory, the English Language Learners group, a mix of refugees and […]
Tag: joy
Live in Peace
Look at any news website or turn on any channel and you’ll surely hear about war. Hamas has attacked Israel. Russia is still invading Ukraine. Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria are all in the midst of civil wars. Drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia and terrorists in armed […]
Setbacks
This past week, I suffered a blow to the goals I had set up for the month of October. I had made plans to walk at least a mile every single day of the month and that goal has already been setback unintentionally. I came down with a head cold. It’s amazing how a simple […]
Abounding joy
Have you ever stopped to think that maybe we all aren’t as accepting of others as we like to think we are? Sometimes, even when we say everyone is welcome, we don’t mean everyone. We exclude those who are different from us. We tell them to conform to our ideals, our values, our way of […]
Where There is Love
Anyone who pays attention to the news will tell you that there is so much in the way of hatred in our world today. Look at the way invasions, mass shootings, book ban parties, even comments on social media accounts are perversive. We make rules against love. We tell people they cannot love others because […]
Miles and Miles
My late friend Margo was known for walking upwards of seven miles a day, no matter if it were raining, snowing, or if the sun was shining brightly. And while I can get upwards of 24,000 steps in a day with the full time job, I still feel as if I pale in comparison. I […]
Be Fruity
“By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.” ~ Galatians 5:22-23 (New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition) Every time I hear the above passage, I think of a song the little kids used to sing at the church I […]
It’s Not Fair
It’s a phrase we all say. IT’S NOT FAIR! As children, we yell it when we perceive a sibling or classmate is receiving something better than we were given by an adult. It’s not fair we have to do the dishes tonight. It’s not fair that they got the purple marker. It’s not fair that […]
Don’t Let Anyone Steal Your Sparkle
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? ~ Dr. Seuss (Theodore Giesel) I wear a number of bracelets. Currently I have eleven on my wrist (twelve if you count my watchband), though I’ve been known to wear as many as fifteen on that wrist and a few on the other. I also […]
The End
Some in the writing world are already aware of this about me, but not everyone is. Often, I write the ending of my books before I write much of the beginning. Sometimes, I do write other parts first. But more often than not, I have the ending finished before I have most of the book […]
K. S. Wood Writes 