A Little Give and Take

A Little Give and Take

Language is enigmatic. But then, so are the lives it attempts to express and the people who use it to do so. Giving and taking are direct opposites. So, logically speaking, a caregiver gives care and a caretaker . . . takes care away? Sort of. The critical difference...
Why Worship?

Why Worship?

The question came from my youngest son, Tanner, one blustery but sunny spring day as we were out on the golf course shortly after I became a Christian. “If God is so mighty,” he wondered, “why does he need mere humans to worship him? Is it an ego...
Unfurling

Unfurling

The past four years have proven the most challenging and enlightening of my life, to the individual-me as well as to the mother/wife/daughter/sister/friend-me. What’s more, the past three months have been the most difficult and rewarding of those years....
Servants and Stewards

Servants and Stewards

 “This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.” 1 Corinthians 4:1 (ESV) When I became a Christian, after a few decades of spiritual confusion and Truth seeking, I was perhaps overly-eager to share...
Soul Safari

Soul Safari

When I initially began writing specifically about ALS back in mid-January, my intention (God willing) was to write something encouraging every day for a year. But then, when February and March and April came around, a whole lot of challenges started to erupt in my...