Be nice. A simple way to avoid a crisis.
I remember one of my favorite things to say to my three older kids when they were growing up was, "Be nice." Sometimes it felt nearly impossible to get through…
10 blogs that I love
I love reading. It’s something my parents cultivated in me as a child. My preferred choice of books at the time were Peanuts comic books. I read them by the…
When bad things happen and we want to blame God
When bad things happen it's easy to fall prey to the thinking of, "Why me?" Our family has gone through the wringer with bad things happening in recent months/years. We've…
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Shake it off, how to cope when you get mixed signals
I know that not everyone will like or appreciate me in this world. That's normal, right? In my mind, I know this, but my heart doesn't like it. Not one…
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The process, who really wants to trust?
Processes and procedures, those are two words that I don’t like. When I hear the famous, “trust the process” or “follow procedure” I know it means to wait. No one…
Nothing’s perfect. There will always be one more.
Nothing’s perfect. We can try, and we do, work to bring help to those in need. But, it will never be enough. There will always be one more. It’s tempting…
It’s been a long time coming, I wonder what took so long
It’s been a long time coming. I arrived here in Lilongwe on Saturday after a thankfully uneventful flight. As I disembarked and made my way through customs and baggage claim,…
A bittersweet time, it’s not good to be alone
I rarely travel without my husband and daughter. That is, until this past year-and-a-half when I’ve had to take a couple of trips without them. In February last year, I…
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Living in peace: how to face the twins of doubt and fear
"On the evening of that day, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, 'Peace…
Put in its place, when the pieces come together
My daughter-in-law, Angela, loves to put puzzles together. I don't have her patience when it comes to puzzles. (BTW, she can also bake. Her baking is worthy of its own…
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