The Man in Green Pants Made Me Cry

I saw him walking down the alley late Wednesday afternoon–who could have missed those neon green pants? He gingerly walked on the water-covered ice, amazingly accomplishing the feat of staying upright while walking and looking upward at the same time.
He was one of about half a dozen linemen from the power company. Their [...]

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What To Do With All My Blessings

I have come to a conclusion: Gratitude is a huge antidote for much that ails us.
I could spend the rest of this post pointing out Bible verses that would back up that conclusion–but you can look them up. (If you don’t know any, use a Bible concordance and start with the words [...]

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Worrying Twice

I don’t like extreme weather. In my lifetime, it has played too many tricks on me.
Once as a child, a tornado went through the small orchard behind our house. At our farm around the corner it picked up the barn ever so slightly and sat it down again on its foundation, just a little bit [...]

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Face It

Unfortunately, winter doesn’t always look as gentle and nice as it does here. Apparently, gently falling snow that doesn’t accumulate is reserved for one’s blog.
All day all the weather predictions here have been for ice tonight. The meteorological certainty of this inclement weather has precipitated (no pun intended) an “ice storm warning”. [...]

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In Honor of Jon and His Cuppa

Last night I posted about gifts (I think I wrote some of it my sleep, so don’t bother to go back and read if you haven’t already; then again, if you need a laugh, maybe you should read!). One thing I didn’t say about the shopping that comes before the wrapping, something that is also [...]

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Gift Wrapping: My Pleasure

I’m waiting for clothes to come out of the dryer before going to bed.  Earlier in the evening though, also waiting for clothes to dry, I was in the basement wrapping Christmas presents.  I wasn’t wrapping anything that I needed to keep a secret from anyone in the household; these gifts were for all the [...]

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Punctuated Life

In a little flash of whimsy, I ended the annual Christmas letter thus:  “As we anticipate 2009, there are lots of question marks.  But there is one huge “period”:  “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever”–and there are many, MANY exclamation marks of praise to a God who is awesome, perfect in His [...]

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