What Do You Do When Your Country Breaks Your Heart?

What Do You Do When Your Country Breaks Your Heart?

What do you do when your country breaks your heart… over and over again? When the present saddens you, the future worries you, and you just want to pack up everyone you love and run away from it all? Here’s what I do—besides deep breaths and desperate prayers: I turn...
Don’t Worry. God’s in Control. Right?

Don’t Worry. God’s in Control. Right?

Don’t worry. No matter what happens, God is in control. With the coming election, I’ve heard that a lot. I hear it…and I want to say yes.I want to say God is in control. Of course I want to say it. I’ve loved God and believed in God all my life, with my whole heart....
Miss Betsy and the Rope

Miss Betsy and the Rope

Miss Betsy’s* house is my last stop on my Meals on Wheels route, so I can stay and chat without needing to rush. She’s always in the mood to talk, whether I find her sitting on her porch with a book or she meets me at the door, gripping her walker on wheels. First, I...

Advent, Week One

Welcome to the celebration of the First Sunday of Advent.. What an exciting time of year! This Sunday we focus on getting ready to enter the mystery of Christmas. It’s perfect timing, then, for us to focus on the prophets’ message that something big was about to...