Why do I always have to be to one to forgive? On so many occasions, I’ve told my children and people that I’ve talked with, “You have to forgive.” And time after time, I’ve seen the look on their face or heard the words, “Why me? Why are you getting on to me? Do you […]
It was a difficult time for Shannon. Difficult is a weak word for what she was going through. How do you describe the pain of uprooting your large family from your home town to move to a new city. Her dad was recovering from septic shock after brutal rounds of radiation and chemotherapy. But leaving […]
A New Year? Some folks call it a new page, a new door, a clean start. Really…I mean REALLY? A clean slate? I’m not a cynical person, but really? That’s a little miss leading. A New Door? Okay, because I love, absolutely love doors, let’s take the metaphor of a new door, […]
I must have sounded like a crazy woman. And if my neighbors had rubbed the sleep from their eyes and peered out the window, I’m sure they would be convinced their neighbor was a crazy woman. There I stood towering over the flowerbed with a bucket in one hand and a stick in the […]