History, Real Life and Faith
I spent eleven hours yesterday sitting at the keyboard writing. I had a deadline and had to compose a proposal to be sent out this morning. It happened. But it was hard. My forearms ached, my eyes were blurring, I could hardly sit still but I kept on it. The deadline loomed. I had to be done on time. Someone…
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What does your life look like if you’re outside of the will of God? I’ve pondered this question over the years–usually when some crisis or another has hit and I’m not sure I’ve been in the right place or done the right thing. Could the calamity befalling me be the result of my missing what God wanted me to do?…
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I’ve been thinking about angels this weekend as my family went through a fairly traumatic experience. After all, angels usually appear in the unusual when you least expect them. Or do they? I taught my children the way to recognize an angel is by it’s first words: “Fear not.” Both the Old and New Testaments recount angels arriving with messages…
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We took a cruise with nuns, once. Avid travelers, my parents loved cruise ships. Unfortunately, when my mother died, my father had a series of health issues and couldn’t travel alone. One spring break my husband and I invited him to take a simple cruise to Mexico with us and our two youngest children. We hoped to encourage him that…
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We took a cruise with nuns, once. Avid travelers, my parents loved cruise ships. Unfortunately, when my mother died, my father had a series of health issues and couldn’t travel alone. One spring break my husband and I invited him to take a simple cruise to Mexico with us and our two youngest children. We hoped to encourage him that…
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As a graduate of UCLA, I appreciate the hand my alma mater played in the development of the Internet. I can even give a grudging nod to the self- proclaimed inventor,former Vice-President Al Gore, who insisted the government put everything on-line. That’s made a lot of stuff easier to do (including filing our taxes). Thanks, Mr. Vice President. But at work…
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