Rose-colored Glasses

It’s fun trying on different glasses in a store, and even more fun doing it with a friend. We laugh at how the shape of the frame changes our look, and if the lenses are different prescriptions or colors we laugh at how it changes our view. A few years ago a friend...

TERRIFIED

“And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring...

Cherry Landslide

Does your life look like a beautiful ice cream sundae, with your favorite toppings picture perfect like in a magazine?  Or is it looking a bit soft, toppings in melted disarray, and all it takes is one more thing to be the cherry on top that landslides it all into a...

Working It

In a recent conversation with a friend, I relayed that when I was younger, I thought that as believers when we worked at something – like not worrying – eventually we would actually not worry anymore. Or grumbling and complaining – we would never do that anymore. I...

LEST WE FORGET

How often we forget things.  How easily we forget – sometimes too easily.  We walk into a room and forget why.  We go to the store and forget what we needed.  We forget pieces of a conversation with a friend.  And unfortunately, we forget what...