Lillee bounces down the aisle and slides into the pew like she comes to this church with us every week. She pulls a hymn book out of the rack. When time comes for the children’s sermon, she beats everyone to the platform steps and takes a seat next to Miss Jeannie,...
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when you find it hard to forgive
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!” So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father charged before he died, saying, ‘Thus...
of waterfalls, honey, and mushrooms
The upper falls, they say, is the third largest vertical waterfall east of the Mississippi at over 200 feet across with a 48-foot drop. The river falls at more than 50,000 gallons per second and looks like honey tumbled. “Look,” my husband says. “There’s why.” He...
lessons mom never shared
Storm clouds roll in thick, billowy and dark, blowing small branches and leaves across the field of wildflowers where butterflies make their habitat, laying flat the flowers and thicket on which they find their life and breath. One butterfly frail and tattered lays...
a heart set on a different fortune
If you follow Jesus only because he makes life easy now, it will look...
when you’re overcome by noise
The sign read “huzzah & welcome.” We walked through the gate and found...
dog days
I’m sitting in a wrought iron chair on the back patio, cupping a mug of...
when jealousy visits
Jealousy is one of the occupational hazards of being a writer, and the most...
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