It’s happened again. Another dear soul has left this earth leaving us with shoulders drooping in disbelief. Our heads understand with fuzzy remembrance Isaiah 57:1-2, which tells why God sometimes takes away someone at…

St. Louis, Missouri, has some of the most extreme weather I have ever experienced. Spring, Summer, and Fall’s thunderstorms were terrifying. Straight-line winds often preceded by howling gusts that bent even the oldest oak…

A couple Sundays ago, after scurrying into church right as it started, I turned sideways and caught a glimpse of someone who was familiar to me. Stopping just for a second to go through…

The other day as my husband, Jerry, and I were driving down the gravel driveway that links our “Little House Nestled in the Big Woods” with the rest of the world, we came upon…

As a little girl, one of my most comforting memories was reading the Sunday comics when getting home from church. After my brother, Jim, and I finished fighting over who would get the best…

“Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble.” -Ecclesiastes…

My husband, Jerry, perhaps because he’s an artist, has vivid dreams almost every single night. He can describe in detail, the color of clothing people are wearing, what their faces look like, and their…

Have you ever read in the Bible the book of Ruth? It is a wonderful true story, desperate in the beginning, turning tragic shortly thereafter, but in the end, opening like a flower into…

In 1960, when I was five years old going on six, my mom underwent open heart surgery to repair two holes in her heart that should have closed before she was born. Doing surgery…