A Quiet Corner of a Busy World
A few months ago, I had a family over for hot chocolate and cookies at Christmas time. I am good friends with the parents and their three kids are preschool and elementary age. They brought a yardstick to measure my Christmas tree. =) The kids had fun drinking their hot chocolate out of teacups (with [...]
He is risen. This year, during the good Friday service and Easter morning service, I found myself looking around the audience a lot. I don't think this was distracting from worship. In fact, it inspired my worship. I watched families, couples, and singles (some I've known forever and some I've never met). Of course, the [...]
“Singleness is a gift,” a dear friend recently told me. Because this is something I hear so often, I want to share my perspective as a single. Whether you believe singleness is a gift or not, I would encourage you at least to think carefully before saying so to a single. (I already had an [...]
I recently listened to a podcast on The Literary Life in which the hosts discussed Dorothy Sayer’s essay “Are Women Human?.” This led me to read the essay for myself. “Are Women Human?” makes the case that women need to have meaningful work because they are humans and God created all humans to work. Some [...]
Some days, it feels more complicated being a godly woman than simply being a godly person. This has been especially hard for me recently as a single woman. I am at the age when 95% of my friends are already married and having kids. I have not even been on a date. As a household [...]
The gospels tell us that Jesus was often at the temple during his earthly life. He was presented in the temple, taught there as a boy and a man (Luke 2, John 8, etc.), and cleansed the temple of money changers and venders (John 2, etc.). This seemed normal to me until this week when [...]
I have a goal of reading a biography about each U.S. president. I initially started reading in order, until I got to Zachary Taylor. Unsurprisingly, the available biographies in local libraries dried up for a few presidents so I have begun to skip around. Last month, I read one on Lincoln. Today, on his birthday, [...]
Writer's Block I sat down to write, But my ideas won’t hold words Strange, stuttering sort of author Three black crows cawing in the fog, All the songs I play are minor. I sat down to write, Of teacups, hearth, and heartache, But only poetry came out… But poetry brushed the prose out. Sentences incomplete [...]
I know what you are thinking. I must be one of the only millennials left who does not have a smartphone. When I found out my pay-as-you-go, "text and call only" phone from 2012 was not going to be compatible with my provider anymore, I considered finally getting a smartphone. After thinking it over, here [...]
A good dancer often has natural balance, rhythm, and coordination. However, you don't have to have a lot of skill or natural ability to be the kind of dancer with whom people want to dance. Here are a few guiding principles that can help anyone be a better dance partner and enjoy dancing more. I've [...]
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