People Who Need

People Who Need

  We encounter them everyday–people who need.   “How are you?” we ask breezily–moving on without waiting for the answer hidden behind the flippant response, “Okay.  I’m fine.”  But, the young mother who just walked...
When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

  I methodically fold each piece of laundry–bending, creasing, aligning edges–and wish life would align as closely to my hopes.  If only the loose ends left from the hard, dirty places of living could be trimmed as easily as the loose ends left at the...
When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

The Falsehood of Self-Affirmation

The to-do list sat passively on my desk as if mocking my attempts to cross each item off. Call the doctor’s office.  (Schedule three children on different days to avoid missing work.) Write Christmas thank-you’s. (Never mind that it’s almost...
When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

Radical Living-Day 2

 “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”  NIV (1 Corinthians 10:31) “There’s got to be more to life than this…”  These words–spoken sixty years ago by a young woman with four children...
When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

Yes, Virginia…There Is a Jesus Christ

From the moment the Thanksgiving turkey graces the table until my children unwrap the last present beneath the tree, my radio is set to local stations boasting of jingle bells and roasting chestnuts.  Yesterday, the words “you’d better watch out,...