2018

I sketched the Christmas tree shown in the featured image. The drawing depicts how our tree looked every year when I was growing up. All the decades were represented by a beautiful blend of hand-crafted, Hallmark Keepsake, and Waterford ornaments. The tree was always perfectly lit (Mom would wrap every branch with white lights), and […]

All I really want in life is for the people in my life to be dependent on the Word of God. I want this for my students, my own children, my entire family, my friends, and myself. My oldest son asked me on the drive home from school today, “Mom, you know how some people […]

“What have I been doing for two months?!” was the first thought I had when I opened up my laptop to write a blog entry and saw that my last post was two months ago. Fortunately, I’m a chronicler so I can look back through my calendars (which I have kept since high school – […]

So, I’ve been thinking about a beautiful paradox in the Christian faith: It’s only when we are bound to Christ that we experience true freedom. Old Testament believers were bound to the law. In the new covenant, we’re not bound to the law of God, we’re bound to the person who perfectly fulfilled the law […]

As a Bible teacher, I love to dream with my students about the Coming Kingdom. Scripture speaks of God’s Kingdom being initiated through Christ’s life here on earth and growing through the spread of the gospel then reaching its consummation at Christ’s return. At that point, what we now refer to as the Coming Kingdom […]

“Angel on My Mind” is an episode of Charlie’s Angels (I’m a child of the 80s!) where Kris Munroe (Cheryl Ladd) is suffering from amnesia after getting hit by a car. Kris walks away from the hit-and-run, ends up in a taxi, and gets out of the moving cab as the driver drives by the beach. […]

Her Chicks When I was a little girl, my mom and I would watch birds from the windows of our home as they built nests in my mom’s many birdhouses, in camellia shrubs, or wherever they decided to make their temporary home. So, it was a gift to me when a momma robin made her […]

Sometimes in my self-absorption, I forget how to pray. I find myself praying for what (I think) I need rather than asking the Lord to give me what he knows I need. Why do I think I know, better than my Father, what is best for me? I had a professor of Proverbs teach that […]

I sent one of my sons from the dinner table to his room the other evening because he was unappreciative of the food before him. What I wanted for him was to have a grateful heart. I wanted him to see all the blessings in his life rather than complain about the one meal (of […]