“I miss you tucking me in bed.” The words were not from one of my children, now grown and away from home, longing for the comfort of days gone bye. The words were from my dad. He had been diagnosed with cancer several weeks earlier and had just completed his first treatment when I visited …
I’m moving. Not out but up. To be more exact, I’m moving up one flight of stairs. Our church’s growing children’s ministry needs the space where my second study is located, so I’m giving that room to them. How can you turn down children? But this is an enormous task, for I have books, many …
In the “What’s Trending” segment on The Today Show last Friday, July 24, Savannah Guthrie reported on an advertising executive who sent out two resumes. The first was your typical resume showing successes and accomplishments. But the second resume highlighted his failures. For example, under “experience” he wrote: “Worked on three losing pitches; Failed to …
My mom’s voice cracked, then it went silent. I looked again at my cell phone to make sure I’d called the right number. “Mom? Is this you?” The next voice I heard was that of my older brother, Mark, speaking for Mom because she couldn’t. The day had come. They would have to give Zoe, …
I couldn’t understand what my two-year-old grandson, Eli, was saying. We were at our church’s playground, and as I was pushing him on the swing, he was asking me something I couldn’t quite make out. Finally, I got it. His Kentucky boy accent had his word for “bells” sounding like bales, as in bales of …