Often when I ask assisted living residents for prayer requests I hear longings for physical healing. “I would just like to get out of this wheelchair and walk again,” one might say, or “For my back to heal so I can get around without this walker.” But truthfully, wheelchairs and walkers may be a part […]
Come to the Cross
April 17, 2019 By 10 Comments
In a sense, the entire Christian life is a series of steps closer and closer to the Cross of Calvary—with each step an arrival. Only as we draw close in prayer and meditation to the truth of what Christ did for us by willingly dying on that cross can we realize the enormity of the […]
A Burst of Springtime!
March 14, 2019 By 14 Comments
As we dig out from a blizzard here in Colorado I’m longing for the early signs of Spring I remember as a child. Each year in late February or early March my dad would come into the kitchen of our Tennessee home carrying long branches he had cut off the forsythia bush in our side […]
An Easter People
March 27, 2018 By 16 Comments
One of my favorite quotes is from St. Augustine and reads, “We are an Easter people and alleluia is our song!” I love it because it speaks not only to the joy we can have when celebrating Resurrection Sunday, but also to the abundant life that those who believe in the risen Lord can have […]
Blessed by Bunnies
April 13, 2017 By 15 Comments
Since the time I was a very little girl watching them scamper around our grassy yard in East Tennessee, stopping only to munch on clover stems, I have loved those “wascally wabbits” also known as bunnies. In junior high school I actually raised rabbits, showing them in the Tennessee State Fair. I even served briefly […]
The Easter Cactus
March 23, 2016 By 14 Comments
My Christmas cactus is blooming for Easter this year! The botanical explanation may be that we moved to a new house and it’s reacting to different light exposure. But a more sacred reason comes to mind whenever I gaze its way. How appropriate that a Christmas cactus would bloom at Easter to remind us that […]
The Good News of Easter
April 2, 2015 By 11 Comments
This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.—1 John 4:9 How astounding it is that the good news of Easter is not just to bring us comfort when someone we love dies, or when we ourselves are preparing […]
Sunrise Hope at Easter
April 17, 2014 By 12 Comments
No wonder so many people love to attend Easter sunrise services. A sunrise represents hope, and so it is the perfect representation of the hope we find in the message of Easter. Few events can be counted on to occur day after day, but the rising of the sun is one of them. Even on […]
Women Running
March 30, 2013 By 10 Comments
Two accounts in the Gospel of John of women running to share good news always bring tears to my eyes—and leave me breathless. The first is when Jesus encounters the Samaritan woman, and the second is when He reveals himself to Mary Magdalene on that first Easter morning. You may know the story of Jesus’ […]
Easter Memories
April 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Occasionally I will post a “classic” column on this new site. Here’s an Easter message from many years ago. The “little granddaughters” mentioned are now 20 and 18! Happy Easter, everyone! May you be blessed by the good news that Christ is risen indeed! Spring is springing up right through our new flagstone patio. […]
