Risin’ Above Your Raisin’
God blesses His children. He wants His children to bless their children, too. You are blessing yours. At the last church where Ray was the preacher, I got to know a woman who was a schoolteacher. I’ll call her Susan.…
Category Inspiring Women
Always Mama
It’s fun to watch my children be parents and to see them do the same things I did when they were small. Sometimes when I’m with my daughter Mary Evelyn and her daughter Clara, I see Mev wiping a bit…
The Coach
Just weeks after Ray and I were engaged in 1974, we stopped at a country store a few miles outside of my hometown. Inside was a girl I had known in high school. We had graduated a year apart, she…
Feisty and Sweet
About 100 people gathered Saturday morning to remember Miss Lena. Among us were her son and three daughters, along with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Perhaps some of the great-great-grandchildren were there, too. Miss Lena was a sweet lady–and a feisty one.…
Stuck
After the young mother in North Carolina told me that she had been accused of not being a typical homeschooling mother because of the size of her earrings (see yesterday’s blog), she and her husband (I’ll call them Sarah and…
Wholly Devoted
Gary and Jo are two of the most positive people I know. They married soon after Jo graduated from high school and recently celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. We missed the party because we were out of town, but I…