What To Do With A Snafu
I am experiencing a royal snafu involving my doctor’s office, my pharmacy and my insurance company which has kept me from getting the medication dosage I need for four days. You see, I diagnosed myself years ago and my physician confirmed. I have GAD—Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Medication helps. I also have had a couple major […]
Driving Home
What has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel. Philippians 1:12 Driving home in the dark last night, angled arrows of head-lighted sleet pelted my windshield, hypnotizing. Wipers on high could not keep up. White-knuckled fingers gripped the steering wheel and my whole body leaned forward, concentrating, praying . . . Please […]
Hush!
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr. Killed. For having courage. To speak truth. About things that matter. The tower is tilting in Puerto Morelos. Built with ancient pyramid ruins. Set in shifting sand. Still standing. But what good is it? It has no […]
When You’re Afraid Your Vacation Will Bite and What Really Makes Life Rich
So here I am, on vacation with my husband—sans kids—in Mexico. I’m grateful for some time away to relax. However, the sun I paid to see decided to take a hike during the exact same week! Just plain disappeared the day after we arrived and left us a thick blanket of cloud with some rain […]
Basket Case
Early one morning, I decided to do the unthinkable—organize the pantry. Not that it was a disaster or anything. I have all these Tupperware containers I earned in a barter with a friend for teaching her kids piano lessons years ago. But some of the containers were labeled incorrectly and I decided some items would […]
Holy New Year! (So Who’s Our Boss?)
“Happy New Year!” I’m still saying it back to people wishing me the same, this first full week of 2016. Everyone wants to be HAPPY. Blow the horns! Throw the confetti! Spread the cheer! Let them eat cake! And yet there’s a dark spot and it’s spreading wild. We sense it, don’t we? The creeping […]