For Those Who Pack So Others Can Fly
After staring at this blinking cursor all morning, with nary a blog post idea in site, my two nieces, ages 10 and 8, came into the front room of my mom’s house. Hey girls, I can’t think of a blog...
View ArticleWhy Generosity Is A Gift to Yourself
I stood in a tiny supply closet many years ago, laboring to organize it once again. (Organizing closets is my super power. My kitchen floor hasn’t been mopped for…a while, but my clothes closet is...
View ArticleActions To Help Us Stay Sane, Calm Even
Yesterday I thought my brain or my heart might explode. One or the other or possibly both simultaneously. It’s when you have your baby about to graduate. At the same time you sit in a courtroom to...
View ArticleThis Simple Thing You Can Bless People with Today
It has to do with cheeseburgers, so you know this is going to be a happy story. There’s a small church in Libby, Montana that has been without a pastor since April, so that man of mine is giving them...
View ArticleYou Can Be An Improver
My girl was home for the weekend, and her husband was quite generous to share her. So we climbed in the car, where I proceeded to talk her ear off. It’s our working arrangement that I talk and she...
View ArticleBring Your Softest Game
It’s this horrible intersection close to our house, where a gas station entry is way too close to the light, so you’ve got cars sitting at the light and other cars coming and trying to enter the gas...
View ArticleIf You’re Close to Being Crabby Or Have Arrived
Probably it started over breakfast when I thought of a painful memory from my past. The Lord encouraged me through my Bible reading, but it still left me a little on edge. Then I started coffee...
View ArticleThe Day I Found My Heart in The Laundry Pile
My way of doing things is to pull out the clean laundry from the dryer and get down on my knees to fold it on the floor. A few days ago I was matching up towel corners when a little paper heart fell...
View ArticleDiversify Your Life Investments for Highest Joy Yield
“And why do you want to know about mutual funds?” Matt said to me, as we got ready for bed last night. “For a blog post,” I said. (I wish you could see his face sometimes.) He crawled into bed, and I...
View ArticleA Quiet Way to Help Your People
We were asked not to bring birthday gifts –only some kind words to say to her. So we finished off our hamburgers and gathered in a small circle in the living room. It wasn’t hard to think of things to...
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