“We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace.” 1 Chron 29:15 NLT We forget this sometimes. We tend to accumulate a lot of stuff as we go along. Stuff we’re convinced […]
It’s been three weeks since I became a (partially) bionic woman… and it hasn’t been nearly as glamorous as seen on TV. So far, I haven’t leapt over any tall buildings or raced long distances at inhuman speeds to rescue puppies or people in distress. I haven’t really been out of bed much. Still. I’m […]
Have you had trouble holding on to your joy lately? Maybe you feel like you lost it a long time ago — you can’t remember where you last found it… Sometimes it seems like there are are so many things (or even people) in our lives — trying to steal our joy from us. And […]
It only ever happened once, as far as I know. Me, being responsible for completely exasperating a teacher in high school — which is one of the reasons I’ve never forgotten it. After all, I was one of the good kids — in a class actually full of them. Our honors history teacher was a bombastic man […]
Last week many of my friends shared this story on Facebook – maybe you saw it – about the country band Lady Antebellum’s tour bus fire. Thankfully no one was hurt, but everything in the back of the bus was destroyed. Everything except singer Hillary Scott’s Bible. The cover was damaged, but as she reported […]
