I have a daughter-in-law who actually likes doing the laundry. That’s good, since she has raised six children. She enjoys providing clean clothes for her family. Many times I’ve observed her ritual of carefully folding each of piece of clothing…
Oldness. Is there such a word? The Bible talks about newness. So I figure there must also be oldness. And I’ve been feeling a lot of that lately. The body wears out. The knees creak. The hips ache. The teeth…
’Tis the season of gifts. Giving and receiving happens as at no other time of the year. I wonder how this tradition escalated to the extreme that it is in most households. To be sure, we need to learn how…
Every Advent season I choose an aspect of Christmas on which to meditate. It’s a way to focus on a specific person or event over a period of several weeks. That way I enter into the meaning of Christmas in…
Sometimes it’s good to be part of a minority. Sometimes we want to be part of a majority. It depends on the issue, of course. With Thanksgiving coming this week, I’m reminded of a minority that I want to be…
We measure lots of things. Our height. Our weight. The distance we travel. I measure the ingredients when I’m baking. I set the timer. I wear a pedometer that counts the steps I take each day. I check the clock…
We had a guest speaker at our church recently who told about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Though I have little interest in mountain climbing, it was fascinating! What possesses someone to have a desire to do something so difficult?…
In my last blog I talked about letting go. One of the things we sometimes have to release is a dream which we have clung to for a long time. But let’s look at the other side of the coin.…
There are times in life when we need to let go. Let go of things, people, dreams, attitudes. It’s not easy, especially when they have been a part of our lives for years. For instance, I was a singer for…
Pies are my specialty. The other day I had a hankering for custard pie. Since my husband doesn’t care much for that, I decided to make it more interesting by making a pumpkin custard pie. I found what looked like…