“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary....
“Peace is not the absence of trouble. It is the presence of Christ in the midst of that trouble.” Those words were scrawled on a blue sticky note and laid out on an open Bible. A picture of that went viral. Until I looked a little more closely, I...
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” I heard that, or read it, earlier today; and realized how wise that little five-word quotation was, and how long it had taken me to learn the truth of it. The quote fit right in with some information I’d...
So it is that we’re having yet another version of what we’ve begun calling Souper Bowl tonight. (And if that’s already been trademarked, I apologize.) Here’s the back story to that. A month or so ago a friend had a life-interrupting situation....
The beautiful opalescent pitcher on the counter just now caught my eye, reminding me once again how drawn I am to white on white. The only reason I own that ceramic piece is that a friend invited me to her yard sale when she sold her mother’s things; and the...
