Recently I was on a discussion board, and we were chatting back and forth about churches in general. It seemed the consensus among most of the folks was that churches are beginning to fall away from our original calling–to glorify God with our lives and lead others to know the… Continue reading
Life comes at you fast sometimes. Just yesterday we lost two church members. They had both been ill for some time. The lady who died, Lois, was very active in the nursery ministry at church. When we first started attending the church, she was in the nursery every Sunday. Our… Continue reading
“Grandma, can I hold you?”“Sure, baby, climb up here on my lap, and you can hold me as long as you want. Mmmm, I love for my little buddy to hold his grandma.”…“Grandma?”“Yes, sweetie?”“What do you want to be when you grow up?”“Hmm, let’s see. I think, hmm, I think… Continue reading
My friend and co-worker said to me today, “Isn’t it strange that someone so involved in the church has so many difficulties in their life?” She was talking about me. I had just finished a tirade about the abuses of one of my family members against the rest of their… Continue reading
In early fall of that year, one phone call and two words changed our lives forever. The storm clouds that had been building in our lives for the past two years had finally burst and nothing would ever again be the same. Our precious child, the “sparkle” in the family,… Continue reading
