I drew the prayer below for two families with newborns. One child is completely healthy. The other child has serious health issues. Parenting a newborn or a child of any age is not easy. With little sleep and the reality of the responsibility, both sets of parents...
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Eat, Drink, and Be…?
"Eat, drink, and be guilty!" Oh, that's not what Ecclesiastes 8:15 says, is it? The real quote from Solomon is: "So I commended enjoyment, because a man has nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor all...
Huckleberries
Last week in the woods of Idaho, I picked huckleberries. After a tedious, 5-mile, hour-long drive up a bumpy dirt road, friends Kate and Chris, husband Andy, and I arrived at the top of a mountain with empty plastic bags and a taste for huckleberry pie in our mouths...
Parking Lot for Distractions
Whenever I pray in color or pray in any other way, distractions come. Maybe other people are not so prone to these outbreaks of attention loss; but I like to think I'm not alone in this dilemma. In my prayer drawings/doodles, I now include the distractions as part of...
Grandmother in Scripture
Okay, so after 24 hours in 11 day-old Clara's presence, I admit to a little bit of cheek-munching and a tad bit of besmittenness. Besmittenness is not even a real word, I'm sure, but neither do the silly lyrics and tunes I've been singing to Clara qualify as real...
Grandmother
Ten days ago I became a grandmother. Today I will meet my first grandchild, Clara Mae. For several years friends have been saying, "I bet you can't wait to be a grandmother." I have to admit a recurrent cringe at this comment. I have loved the carefree adult...
Small Rituals
When I'm in the dumps, I don't want a trip to Disney World, a fancy dinner out, or the prescribed cure of my mother's generation--a new hat. A few small, simple rituals can change the course of my ill-temper and my dark spirits. Here are a few of my...
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Hole in the Head
A few days ago I told the proprietor of a small women's clothing store, " I need another item of clothing like I need a hole in the head." Then it struck me, "I probably do need a hole in the head!" Jesus's words in Matthew's Gospel chapter 5:29-30 come to mind: 29...