When I was a kid, we had what I always called the ‘piano man’ ~ a music box of a man with a mustache playing “The Entertainer”. Holding the music box in my hands and watching the mechanism play those…
Redeemer!
Category: Faith in Families
New Creations in Christ
Psalm 51:1 & 17 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions… The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart. Watching people publicly…
Luminaries
Cousins make forts of two-by-fours, unconstructed sanctuary our playground, serve acorn-crust mud pies on blue stained-glass, jump rope to the beat of our fathers’ hammers ~ percussion the sound of church rising ground-up, clouds for a steeple. Cornerstone planted in…
A Servant’s Heart
Some time ago I had a conversation with a professed Christian woman who had gone through a difficult divorce, and was struggling to understand what went wrong. She posed some interesting questions: “How do we serve others constantly without becoming…
Forgiveness ~ A Choice
The rain as it falls on a hot pavement, fresh cut grass, and the pages of a new book opened for the first time. These are my youngest granddaughter’s favorite smells, fragrances. She had just listed them for me as…