Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, was a master at capturing the human condition. The television special "A...

A Wretch Like Me…Once Was Lost.   David, in Psalm 139:4, honored God with these words: " You know every step I will take before my...

The past couple of days I have been thinking a great deal about the inauguration. The hoopla of the press, the expense, the whole thing....

December 31, 2024 I started this blog in the early morning of New Year's Eve Day, thinking about the Gratitude Jar lurking behind my...

Suzie Richey (Han Pun Cho) at Osan Air Base, Korea somtime around 1957-1960 Born during the Japanese occupation in Korea, my...

It was May 2023 when my husband, Dave and I were mulching around the shrubbery at our home when I first felt the “twinge”. With each...

As we sail into the 2024 holiday season, whether it’s to buy a tree stand or haul away a broken appliance, setting priorities is...

This is such an appropriate passage for Christmas time. As we enter into the month of December, now is when we begin to fill up our days...

In the dark, early hours of Christmas Eve 2017, I grabbed my laptop and the largest mug of coffee I could cram in a cupholder and drove...

It was the first not-rainy day in ten that a group of 76 women, mostly connected to Living Water Community Church, gathered for a...

Comfortably sandwiched between my Church Peeps, I sat in service, feeling chastised. But it wasn't because of a grievous transgression....

Star Log: March 29, 2017 We piled into the Family Ford and drove five hours to one of the most forgettable places on a Pennsylvania map....

The call came on a Saturday. I have stage 4 colon cancer and the doctor said I have 11 months to live.  Shock—oh my God; disbelief—that...

When we think of David – the biblical David – what comes to mind? Certainly shepherd, poet, warrior, giant-killer, and king. He was an...

Imagine a scenario: A 3rd grade classroom, the teacher is busy at her desk helping a child, and the rest of the class is hanging out...

Nehemiah 1:3 “They said to me, ‘The remnant there in the province, who had survived the exile, is in great trouble and shame. The wall...

I am (depending on your definition of it) a fraud. In early September as I sat down to write this blog, I was ready to confess that I had...

When I was 9, I became a songwriter. It may have had something to do with walking my neighborhood streets selling boxes of Christmas...

Her voice broke with sniffles, coughs, and sneezes as the Negro spiritual she sang filled the convenience store. For a moment, I almost...

Aside from his quick wit and the occasional ability to misinterpret Scripture, one of the things I inherited from my dad was his...