Encouraging Women to Passionately Pursue God
“Mom, I need you.” My hands stopped dinner preparations and my heart constricted as my eyes took in the sight. Our ten-year-old diabetic daughter was having trouble getting enough blood to fill her pre-dinner test strip. I assisted her, and we celebrated her “in range” result. As she left the kitchen, I reflected on how…
“I don’t get it,” I said to our teenage daughter. I was staring at a disposable coffee cup sitting on the counter. It had lines marking amounts vertically ascending the cup. The confusion settled upon me as I read the verbiage with each line: No Not Yet Closer Almost There Ready “This cup must have…
I wish I were the mom who packs perfect school lunches everyday. I would box balanced, delicious food topped with a napkin. That paper napkin would be scrawled upon with words of wisdom. Every new school year I vow I will turn that dream into a reality. On a recent manic morning, I folded a…
Ever tire of the storms of life? Ever feel sapped by the endless harassment of hurricanes, the torment of tornadoes, the frustrations of floods overtaking your days, weeks, even years? Maybe like me, you’ve thought the best days in the garden of life are the days of warm sunshine, followed by a gentle evening rain….
Our fur-baby Minna loves her people. All summer she enjoyed parks, kayaking, and picnicking excursions with the us. Then August hit. My husband and I were back at school preparing our classrooms. The younger daughters started back to school. The college student returned to college. Minna moped. After school I would find Minna with her…
Will this list never end? I thought as I dashed off to the grocery store. Filling my cart with milk, produce, bread, and meat, I zipped up and down those bulging aisles wondering, does my family consider how much thought goes into providing for their nutrition? One daughter is headache prone: water-rich produce and the…
Have you ever watched otters search for clams? I spent the afternoon at the zoo recently, and watching them made me think how I often perceive others’ gifts. The otters live in a wonderful habitat: a waterfall flows into a shallow stream. Rocks climb from the surface of the riverbed, providing a staircase of sorts…
Ever feel like a fraud? A few years ago, I switched careers from nursing to teaching medicine to high school students. Before I accepted my teaching position, I had various volunteer teaching experiences. I had even homeschooled my own children. Yet, I didn’t see myself as a teacher. The first week of class proved more…
I awoke to instant itching, scratching brought no relief. I examined by arms: long unfamiliar appendages pink with red splotches and angry-looking welts. What I saw certainly looked like poison ivy. But I had not been in poison ivy. I knew poison ivy- all too well. I mentally retraced where I’d been the last few days….