Category: Reflections

The Message of Christmas

This Christmas post starts with a very un-Christmas-y story, but stick with me for a minute, and we’ll get there. 2 Samuel 18 relates a […]

The Truth About Santa Claus

I love Christmas.  I have a Christmas tree and stockings and traditions and lights and all that other Christmas-y stuff.  I even have a Santa […]

A Tree For Many Christmases

We put up our tree yesterday, as we always do on the day after Thanksgiving.  It is starting to lose some of its very-fake branches. […]

We Can Finally Eat Waffles

Occasionally I like to serve breakfast food for supper.  Oh, I know it’s not the most healthy, low-fat, low-carb, or low-sodium meal, but it’s yummy […]

A Tribute To (My) Grandparents

          I love to watch kids with their grandparents. It doesn’t make sense.  You see, by kids’ normal standards, grandparents should […]

Same Old Same Old

Before Sunday evening prayer service, one our ministers allows people to share prayer needs with the congregation. We allow, even encourage, our children to speak […]

What If The Preacher Acted Just Like You ?

My kids occasionally make the mistake of saying that they have to help out with something around the church or act a certain way because […]

Dear Myself, Teen Edition

  Dear Teen Self, You are a great girl, an amazing creation of God, and you’re doing just fine.  However, there are a few things […]

Keep Catching Apes And Silly Elephants: Don’t Forget Those Silly Elephants

My husband is a professor at a seminary, teaching master’s degree students.  He holds a PhD in Religion from Temple University.  We were married the entire time […]

I Deserve What?

Walking down the corridor in the mall the other day I saw this advertisement. “YOU DESERVE TO WAKE UP HAPPY”. Really?  Why?  And how? The […]