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I don’t know how to start this post; I don’t even know what to say.  The events of the last month compounded with the atmosphere of this entire year have made my soul restless. As I watched the stories unfold and the riots ensue, I was filled with tremendous sadness. George Floyd could have been […]

My brother and I used to do this to each other all that time…  We would do something mischievous, get caught, and get a one on one lecture from one of our parents.  If we felt like the other deserved a lecture, in passing, we would say “Mom wants to talk to you.” And send […]

One of my favorite stories in the Bible is when Jesus heals the demon possessed man at the Gerasenes.  This man is legitimately crazy.  He lives in a graveyard (naked) and is so insanely strong that chains can’t hold him.  I picture him with crazy hair and covered in filth.  You could probably smell him […]

I figuratively hit a wall last week. Last weekend, after cooking my 6th meal in a row, I almost lost it.  It really wasn’t the cooking that did me in.  It was the prepping, cooking, eating, and clean up which only left me room to do a load of laundry before this cycle started all […]

There is a bird that lives in the trees behind my house.  It’s not my bird; it doesn’t even live in my yard.  But I know it’s there.  Every morning, from March until November, at the first glimmer of dawn, this bird starts to sing.  It starts off with a few notes and within an […]

A few nights ago, I had a dream. In my dream, I was alone, trying to find my way home in a very bad storm.  I knew that my journey home was going to be a long one- I was going from Galveston (a beach town on the coast of Texas) back home to Plano […]

In Mark 6, Jesus performs a miracle of feeding 5,000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish.  The disciples pass out the food and then collect 12 baskets of leftovers.  After this, they hop on a boat and float out to the middle of a lake.  In the middle of the night, the wind picks […]

Here’s another installment of books imitating life (or vice versa).  Tonight, we get a zoology lesson. My kids love animals; so we have a ton of books about animals.  One of their favorite books is a book called “Predator Splashdown”.  The book is a series of battle match ups between various water dwelling animals.  They […]

My husband and I ended 2019 with the flu. In 15 years of marriage, we have never both been sick simultaneously.  I do not recommend it. It started on a Friday.  We both felt ragged and run down but thought it was just the symptom of a long week with a holiday in the middle.  […]

I have an irrational fear. I take that back… I have several irrational fears.  Most of mine are about driving… I have an irrational fear of cars coming unhooked from car haulers on the highway. (I think that one is from the movies!) I have a fear of the retaining walls that they put up […]