Yearly Archives

2009

  • Eating an Elephant

    How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. The Israelites were perched on the edge of the Jordan River. As they stood, they looked out at the land before them and…

    Dec 10
  • Holding On

    “I’m falling, hold me,” my grandmother’s eyes were wide as she reached out her hands looking for something to grasp. “I’ve got you, Grandmother. I won’t let you fall,” I assured her. My pregnant…

    Dec 7
  • Turn Your Head

    “Come on, sweet girl. Turn your head this way,” I coaxed my newborn baby. As I tried to gently turn her soft head to the left, she tensed up and held her head in…

    Nov 16
  • Foxes in Facebook

    Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom. Song of Solomon 2:15 NIV It all starts so innocently. No one is supposed to get…

    Nov 10
  • No Place to Lay My Head

    I had nowhere to sleep. Completely perplexed and too tired to be logical, I stood in the hallway, pillow in hand. The stomach flu had swept through my house and claimed me in the…

    Nov 5