I couldn’t come up with a clever title. I didn’t want you to scroll by and miss the update I promised to give almost a month ago. Sometimes I feel busier than ever and others, like on a Saturday, I feel like all I need to do is stay in bed waiting for COVID-19 to…
Day 4: A time to praise
In the midst of crisis, praise is the catalyst that activates the spiritual realm to effect the change that’s needed. Tuesday saw more unity and fewer outrageous behavior from protesters and police officers. We must see all of the little things like police officers kneeling with the protesters and taking a moment of silence to…
Day 3 Prayer: Speechless
I’m late in posting something, because I have been in such shock that I was seeing reports of even more death. Yesterday, I had to fight fear off and such a sadness when I read about more preventable, senseless deaths and watched the news reports and footage of the President’s actions to demonstrate what he…
Day 2 Prayer: Going for Broke
Today we focus on acknowledging ways we have contributed to racism continuing in our country. Thank you Lord for another morning to step out and do better. God you are good all the time and love each of us like your own flesh and blood. Break our hearts for what breaks yours. Forgive me from…
The Value of Life Amidst COVID-19
I have been working on a carefully researched response to the reopening of America. It’s an informational piece. This is not it. I couldn’t wait any longer to speak up, because our country is changing so much from day to day or even morning to evening. I couldn’t wait any longer. My voice is just…
Easter during a Pandemic
A journal entry: Lavish love and perfect gifts Easter isn’t Easter without egg dying, egg hunts at church and Grandma and Grandpa King’s, and watching the Passion. We miss our small group we just started attending twice a month and the Passover Seder celebration. The texting, meets, and zoom don’t replace the need for in-person,…
Corrugated Cardboard Window Box
Upcycled? Recycled? Corrugated Cardboard. When you’re self isolating and it’s day number 27, you miss Target runs, eating out, and trips to the dog park and church. But most of all in the middle of April, you miss meandering through the rows of flowers, fruits, veggies and bags of mulch, manure, and garden soil at…
Ode to Corona-19
Social isolation hasn’t been a big change for us as a family. Going to the library, church and co-op were really the only things that changed. I’m thankful for this time of even more social distance for many different reasons. I like our church and friends and family, but the slowed pace is a welcome…
Forgiveness
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:25 Day 21: Isolation began Friday the 13th for us under the recommendation of our family doctor in order to lessen the chance that we’d contract the COVID-19…
Big Beginnings
This is the hardest piece of writing for me to publish for public consumption. I believe it will help someone, and that’s often a main goal of blogging, right? To help someone else. The pictures at the top of this are me before my first 12-week weight loss challenge. If you’ve battled weight gain and…