Mine
The Asarco mine in southern Arizona is a vast area of 20,000 acres with a complex, coordinated system of vehicles and machines all designed to excavate desired metals from the earth. The largest vehicles on site are the haul trucks, each costing four million dollars. They have six gigantic wheels with tires that must replaced every six months costing […]
Desert of Life
Flying into Tucson, I looked down and saw brown. Lots of brown ground with not much that I would call pretty—not like Wisconsin in the spring where budding trees splash green against robin’s egg blue sky, and purple and yellow are pushing through with crocus and daffodil. I have come to the desert. Dry and dusty. The mountains blur in the haze […]
Opossums, Voles, and Easter Bunnies
Tuesday after Easter. Just another day. But I have resurrection from the dead and salvation on my mind, more than on a usual day. You know the after-effects of post-holiday, when life settles down to normal, whatever “normal” is? And I can’t get that tiny creature held in my hand on Easter Sunday out of […]
Come Alive!
Jesus Christ is risen! The stone has been rolled away! He conquered DEATH, left the tomb empty, and lives forever bringing new life to all who will believe and accept His free gift of salvation. Hallelujah! I could site all the evidence from once-atheists turned believers when they went on a personal mission to disprove the […]
Climb
She loved to tell me how she was such a tomboy as a kid—how she climbed those gnarled apple trees and ate those green fruits till she got sick at her stomach. And I loved thinking I was like my mom in this particular way. I loved to climb. One of my earliest memories was […]
Expectation
Victory, triumph, peace, freedom. This is why they waved palm branches along that road I walked from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem—the same road my Lord Jesus traveled. I could see them in my mind, lining both sides of that road. I could see the smiles. I could hear the shouts. I could feel […]
Open
How to find true love and life in loss . . . We’ve all experienced it, you know. Loss. It’s a reality of our broken world. We lose jobs to the economy. We lose friends and family through misunderstandings and betrayals. We lose spouses through divorce. We lose health through illness or accident. We lose […]
New Life
I need a resurrection from the dead. Everything in me hurts, thanks to a respiratory flu that has kept me either close to or in bed for three days now. My head aches, my nose is raw and red, my eyes are swollen and weepy, even my hair follicles hurt! Medicated with NyQuil and Dayquil round-the-clock, I’m […]
Pink Hat
It’s all about what you wear . . . We left the farm for a day. Our youngest, a freshman in high school, is on spring break. Unlike many around here who fly south to get some sun and warmth we’re all itching for in Wisconsin, we go north every spring. Apparently, that’s crazy, so […]
Catty
How to suffer well so we can help others suffer well . . . Catching barn cats, crating, and transporting them to the vet were calendar to-dos last week for annual examinations and vaccinations. Howling their laments, I drove all three of them to the one who knows better than I what they need to […]