One day my oldest daughter randomly decided to recite a list of relatives she’d met. It went something like this: “Gramma Joyce”: that’s daddy’s mommy “Granny”: that’s mommy’s mommy “Papa”: that’s daddy’s daddy “Ummm . . . wait, ” “mommy, where is your daddy?” My husband and I laughed. The reality is, I was raised in a single parent home. My children will probably never be in the same room as their maternal grandfather. The blessing is, they noticed! When Gabrielle asked Continue Reading
Silence Speaks
A friend and I decided to meet up for lunch on our college campus one day. I could hardly wait. I was bursting at the seams with an overwhelming eagerness to share some information about a mutual colleague. Mind you, it was the type of information I would not dare share if the person about whom I was speaking was present. I’m pretty sure Webster would define this as gossip. Nevertheless, they were not present and I just had to tell somebody what I had come to know! We sat down, got our food, Continue Reading
Give It Up
(If you're reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of today's post.) In Daniel chapter 3 of any Bible, you will most likely find a heading that reads something like this: The Image of Gold and the Blazing Furnace. This is the story of King Nebuchadnezzar and his proclamation that at the sound of the music all the nations of Babylon were to “fall down and worship the image of gold” that he had set up or be thrown into a blazing furnace. There were three Hebrew men who Continue Reading