When my brothers and I get together and recollect our childhood, we recognize our memories are extremely idyllic! We have great memories and feels of our growing up years. One of those idyllic memories is of my grandparents’ house. Oh, it wasn’t a beach house or lake house, not a cabin in the mountains… it was a small, plain house…
Tag: Love
What is Love?
The word love is used to describe how we feel about many things. We love favorite foods, pets, cars, clothes or even kitchen appliances. John 3:16 says that God loves us. His love is given to us as a gift. I learned a deeper love over my 40 years working in hospitals and hospices. A young couple married after three…
In Christ’s Eyes We Are Scratch!
I never used to care about squashed-dead possums on the road. Sometimes I would think “Ick” or “Ohhh, I hope the car clears it,” but most of the time the squashed-dead possum didn’t even register. I drove right on by. But that was before Scratch. Scratch, the baby possum Jake rescued from it’s squashed-dead mom. The baby possum we fed…
God Has Forgiven You
Ephesians 4:32 says, “Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.” I greatly admire parents and what they do. It is no easy task to raise kids in the world we live in. This came to my realization when I was babysitting the other day. The two children I was…