Category: listening
Posted on August 16, 2019
Feeling a little thirsty? Here’s how to stay hydrated …
By the time you actually feel thirsty, your body is already in dangerous need of water. A dry mouth and a sandpaper tongue indicate that your system is desperately searching for a way to rehydrate its cells. So …
Posted on November 29, 2018
What happens when you move too fast?
We have this calendar app that we use as a family. And I am seriously grateful for it. With three boys and lots of activities, we move fast. Keeping up with life would be impossible without a structure …
Updated on August 23, 2018
What is it you need to remember?
“Hey, Mom! You know it’s been almost 22 years since you went to school here, right?!” my oldest bellows his discovery across the breadth of the rambling porch at my college sorority house. There is a young sister …
Updated on March 22, 2018
Driving Lessons
I didn’t know there were two left turn lanes. It never occurred to me that the MARTA bus in the next lane was going to turn with me when the arrow switched to green. Turning left while driving …
Updated on December 7, 2017
The music of Hope – First in our Advent Series
A missing tuxedo shirt, black pants that suddenly seem to have shrunk, and a cello banging around in the back of my van with the basketballs can only mean one thing. It is concert season! Holidays here we …
Updated on November 1, 2017
How to use a compass
Orienteering. I just had to Google that word to make sure I was using it correctly. It involves reading a map and using numbers, in the woods on unknown paths. Yeah. My brain is missing the neurons it …
Updated on August 15, 2017
On being salt and light and why it matters
I’ve read so many words about the riots in Charlottesville this past weekend. I’ve read words of haters and ones claiming that love wins; sad words and outraged ones. I’ve seen friends’ words unravel years of friendship in comment threads on social …
Updated on February 1, 2017
Knocking on doors that won’t open and seeking answers
Knocking on doors is a favorite activity in our neck of the woods. We live in a neighborhood packed full of active little adventure seeking boys. And every afternoon my youngest hardly finishes the last word of his daily reading assignment …
Updated on January 20, 2017
A prayer for this Inauguration Day
It seems that history will be made today. Since 1937 and the inauguration of President Roosevelt, January 20th has stood on the calendar as the time when power changes hands here in these United States of America. It is Inauguration Day. And …
Updated on December 13, 2016
Seeking love — the third in our Advent series
It won’t be much longer now. The days are ticking off the calendar at a rapid-fire kind of speed. My boys rejoice as we light the third candle and the store clerk at Walmart sends me into a full on …
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