After my second Family Is Multi-Generational post, a longtime reader, whose missionary family has recently moved an ocean away from her parents, encouraged me to write about practical ways to honor your parents from afar. I loved this sentence near…
I know that you feel on call 24 You don’t just feel it; you are! What is amazing to remember is this: God is on call 24/7, too. A friend and I recently chatted about the current situation that Ray…
I recently wrote about Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, recommending it as a good book for young people to read before making a decision about whom to marry. Then I shared a passage about paying attention. As I continued listening…
The beautiful Thomas Moran painting and the other 62 paintings that James M. Cowan gave to the city of Nashville are the works of 57 American artists. The paintings date from 1765 to 1923. While in the gallery, I took…
One day last week, we enjoyed a picnic in Nashville’s Centennial Park after Ray’s radiation treatment . . . and later a walk by Watauga Lake. Between our picnic and walk, we went inside the Parthenon . . . .…
One day last week I shared paintings by Edward Moran, a painter whose works I didn’t know until I came across his Life Saving Patrol on the Smithsonian Institution public domain image site. Here it is again. Life Saving Patrol by…
