My church’s interim pastor, Jay McDermond, spoke on the life of Peter last Sunday, spending much of his time focusing on Peter’s less admirable qualities. (I believe the words “bone head” may have been employed.) By human standards, Peter probably wasn’t the...
Oh my word, these two used to stand in the windows at our old house eating apples and watching the cars drive by on Franklin St. I hear, again, the patter of little feet upstairs. It’s 7:30 pm, a good half hour since the song and a prayer and good...
(photo credit) Our giant black chicken stood outside the open kitchen window clucking with vigor yesterday afternoon. Despite the high heat and humidity, she marched back and forth in the green grass busily squawking with an air of self-importance, a clear sign...
(My kids don’t start school for two more weeks, but many in our area start tomorrow. I’m praying for and thinking of all those kids and Mamas tonight and wanted to re-share this post from fall 2015.) All four kids took turns rummaging, elbow deep, in...
I loaded three cartons of eggs and three ice blocks into our straight-out-of-the-eighties rolling cooler this morning. We inherited the cooler from a friend because she didn’t need it anymore and we didn’t want to spend $20 on a cooler for eggs that might not...
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