My parents moved from the Detroit area to buy four small rustic cabins on a lake in northern lower Michigan and later built a six-room motel. Our little house's screened-in porch (that I painted chartreuse when my folks were away) served as the office. I can still see...
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reflections on beauty and lessons learned too late
Every year for Christmas, she'd give us roughly the same thing. My sister and I would sneer and groan at the oversize art books on "how to draw faces" like the ones you'd see in a Michelangelo painting. One time, my giant book came tucked inside a black portfolio--the...
when you have no idea where you are going
It's been one of those weeks. You've had them, right? Times of hard decision-making and what-ifs that lead to more waiting and second-guessing and flip-flopped fear and trust, and you just want a final decision to be made and hope you can live with it. Except each...
to be deceived by beauty
They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. Mark 4:18-19 (ESV) I'm aware of the deception, but I make no effort to resist....
more lessons from basketball camp
She was a rising third grader back then when she signed up for her...
why bloggers need your feedback
I decided to start blogging after sitting through a frustrating board meeting....
how to be happy: declare yourself bankrupt
Our pastor tells a story about how France’s King Louis XIV planned his...
when our prayers don’t add up
“The words started out comforting enough,” Cheryl told me. “My friend told me...
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