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Family vocabulary – music One of my family’s vocabulary words is music. My father’s family spent hours singing together -four-part a Capella music, for sure. Male quartets and ladies trios. When my uncle (as a child) had a broken leg, the only thing that quieted him was hearing his sister sing. “Sing, Mabel, sing!” he’d…
Altars of remembering We each have our monuments – our times, places, and ways of remembering. As children of God, we also have altars: places where we have met God. In numerous accounts in Biblical history, many altars and memorials were erected. This was how God’s people confessed sin and offered praise. This was not…
My childhood home had boundaries – not fences and padlocks, but boundaries which we knew we should not cross. There were perimeters like disobedience and defiance. I remember the evening like it was yesterday. I was supposed to be helping with the dishes, but I skipped outside to play. The sandbox was much more fun…
When parenting is especially hard and you’re not sure what to do with a defiant child, consider granting mercy¹. Do it, not because he deserves it, because mercy isn’t deserved. Do it because we have been the recipients of mercy. As God grants us mercy when we least deserve it, we can model that to our…
“Have you ever thought about it,” a fellow nurse asked me one day, “that going into Isolation makes us all equal?” It’s true. Our education, experience, age, and culture might be different. Yet, when patients need to be protected or when health care workers need protection, those going into the patients’ rooms wear caps, gowns, gloves,…
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