Every Second Counts
As I sat down last night to write this post about the preciousness of time, I wondered how to illustrate it. Then I remembered a clock that Ray and I saw in 2014 when we were privileged to visit Vancouver,…
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One Kind Man in a Parking Lot
After we left the St. Louis Art Museum last week, we drove to the nearby Turtle Playground in Forest Park. I was excited about returning to Turtle Playground as I remembered being there with our son and his sons back…
Work That Delights and Feels Important
Ray and I enjoyed visiting the St. Louis Art Museum with our son and two of our grandsons last week. During most of our visit there, we wandered from gallery to gallery with little contact with members of the staff.…
We All Have Hope
Early one morning two millennia ago, women went to a tomb in Israel to show their love to Jesus Christ. To their amazement, an angel told them that their beloved friend and teacher was no longer there but had risen…
The Family Plan
Family is God’s idea. In His perfect plan, every child is born into a family who loves him or her and then each of those family members loves and serves one another for the rest of their lives. What a…
In the Here and Now
When I was a young wife and mother, Ray was a campus minister at a church in Oxford, Mississippi. I was blessed to know many Jesus-loving, family-focused, and hard-working older women in that congregation. I soaked up their examples and wisdom.…