Recently I substituted for our pastor who was away. God had my attention before I even started to prepare my sermon by letting me suffer some big time pain. I’d like to tell you about it. I wouldn’t have believed this myself if it didn’t happen to me. “My most…
clean slate
“Starting with a Clean Slate”
When my daughters were young I taught them to clean and tidy and sort out their own bedrooms. It was the 80’s and we were’t well off so they didn’t have a pile of stuff, but still, it got out of order fairly quickly. Saturday morning was room cleaning time…
faith
Dressing the Part
If you grew up in Canada anywhere from 1967 to 1996 you would have watched Mr. Dressup. He was an understudy of Mr. Rogers who was the first to take on the Mr. Dressup role (little known fact). He was gentle and kind and slow to speak and spoke to…
depression, hope
Holding Hands for Depression
I’ll never forget one time when my husband and I were walking through a campground holding hands. We walked by another couple setting up their stuff and the husband said, “If my wife sees you she’ll say to me, ‘See, lots of other husbands are willing to hold their wife’s…