[Editor’s Note: This post originally ran last year. I was unable to do post the follow-up articles in the series because of a change of seasons in my family. Let’s try again! The second post in this series will run on Thursday.] Nowadays it seems we need how-to books, vlogs, blogs, and even devotionals to…
He Is Coming Soon
A recent social media meme shows a woman looking down the street saying, “Just trying to figure out what chapter of Revelation we’re in today.” You may feel the same with 2020 already hosting a worldwide pandemic, massive job loss, and mandated quarantines. Add to that tornadoes, earthquakes, a murder hornet invasion, racial unrest, looting…
The Virus that Stole Fellowship
In a place not far away or long ago, an invisible creature called Covid-19 lived. He was a troublemaker that came from a long line of troublemakers. A third cousin killed 50 million people in the 14th century. To do it, Bubonic had to inhabit the fleas that lived on rats. Covid told himself…
A Life Worth Living
Two women visited a funeral home to pay their respects to a wealthy neighbor who had died. After signing the guest book, they were surprised to be the only ones in the viewing room. The first woman, who didn’t know the deceased well, looked down at the middle-aged woman in the satin of her costly…
In the Waiting Room
My husband is dying. As shocking as that seems, it’s a sentence I could have written every day for twenty-one months since he got an “aggressive cancer” diagnosis. I knew what the tests would show after that doctor’s appointment was changed to the last one of the day—allowing patients to cry or scream in privacy….
Home for Christmas
“If I’m still alive on Christmas Eve, I would like your promise that I can go home for Christmas,” the frail young woman whispered to her doctor. It was a cold day in December and the news Dr. John MacDougall had just delivered seemed colder still. Yet the devout young mother of a one-year-old…
Encouragement
The exact moment of one’s perceived independence is subjective, isn’t it? The date or event fluctuates with age. As a young teenager I sang, “Born Free” with the sorrow of a caged animal. My spoiled, middle-class American teenage girl angst shrouded the recognition of the myriad freedoms I took for granted. “When I’m 18, I’ll…
As a little girl, my childhood savings bank was a pink ceramic dog. The removable stopper on the bottom enabled me to take the money out, which I often did—far too often. Recently, while visiting my parents, I noticed a small wooden box with a hole in the top. “What’s that, Dad?” He smiled that…
Fried Green Tomatoes was a book and screenplay by Fannie Flagg, an actress and a Southern woman. At the beginning of the 1991 movie we see a mousy, meek Kathy Bates playing Evelyn Couch who visits her husband’s aunt in a nursing home. There she meets a lively, talkative old lady played by Jessica Tandy….
The 1994 movie Forrest Gump won six Oscars and is the 13th top-rated movie on IMDb’s website. In it Jenny, a beautiful little blond girl befriends the mentally slow young boy Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) in elementary school. She tries to protect him and is the one who shouts, “Run, Forrest! Run!” when…
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