MLK: Wisdom for Today

MLK: Wisdom for Today

In this time of turmoil in the United States, I find myself wishing that a fellow like Martin Luther King was still with us.  How we need his wisdom today! While we remember him as an advocate of healthy race relationships, I think his words speak to today’s...
Easy Tips for Surviving Quarantine with Kids

Easy Tips for Surviving Quarantine with Kids

I don’t know about you, but when the helpful “Surviving Quarantine” tips I read make me feel like quarantine is one more way I’m failing my children, they are far from helpful. Is this one-woman shop really supposed to replace school, music lessons, dance rehearsals...
10 Benefits of a Pandemic

10 Benefits of a Pandemic

In a recent conversation with my daughter, I postulated that there might be benefits to this virus, Covid-19.  She nearly whispered, “I do not dare speak those words—but I think I agree.”  I am going to speak those words, friends.  And I preface the following by...

Ignoring Differences

On my way to the airport in Ft. Lauderdale, I had to exit the interstate to gas up my rental car before turning it in.  I wasn’t thinking about where I was, or even what it looked like; I just needed a gas station. I was getting ready to fill up the car when...
When Lightning Strikes

When Lightning Strikes

This morning, I was approached by a man outside of a McDonald’s who said he had seen me in the store, and was prompted by the Holy Spirit to give me a message.  The message was “You are going to be fine.”  For someone still recovering from...
Traveling Light

Traveling Light

Cleaning out my mother’s house made me determined to run right home and do a similar decluttering in my own.  After all, when do we ever have the motivation to work our way back to the last stray paperclip in the junk drawer, unless we have to hand the...