Last week’s blog declared my intention to be more intentional when it came to God’s calling on my life. I had run and hidden enough. Well, I’m off! I am now certified to substitute teach in my home town school district. I spent two days in the classroom last week and I’ve accepted assignments all … Continue reading Go Be Youi
Your Calling
October 24, 2021 Your Calling Last week Gary Cleveland and I would have celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary. If you’ve followed me at all, you know that didn’t happen. Gary died two-weeks shy of our 42nd Anniversary. I’ve had eight years to get over it. Of course, we all know that you don’t just get … Continue reading Your Calling
Enough love to go around…
Enough love to go aroundIn 2010 I wrote a non-fiction book about a black man. The day we finished our last edits this man and I were sitting in a small empty classroom of a church building in North Carolina. Our five-year journey was finished. And, as I laid my pen down, we wept. Not … Continue reading Enough love to go around…
Choose
How can December be all cheery and bright and January be like a cave full of bat dung? Perspective. All in the eyes of the beholder. These last few years I’ve struggled to keep positive, to keep moving forward, to bloom where I’m planted, to look on the bright side, see the silver lining, accept … Continue reading Choose
Post-Christmas/ Pre New’s Year’s
Here we are in that week between Christmas and New Year’s. The stockings once filled with surprise and wonder are now lying in a corner abandoned, and in the fridge a various assortment of left-overs make up creative meals. Dressing and peanut butter balls anyone? It’s a week of basking in the glow of recent … Continue reading Post-Christmas/ Pre New’s Year’s
a Child changes everything
“Tis the season, right? It’s Christmas and if there ever was a time we needed Christmas it is now. Our country is yearning for this holiday season so badly, folks were putting their trees up in October. We want Christmas and all the trimmings. Bring on the love, the good cheer, the hope, the hot … Continue reading a Child changes everything
Hospitality
When I was a young minister’s wife and mother of three little boys, I used to practically kill myself getting ready for company. Inviting folks into our home (which the church owned) was an unspoken expectation of the congregations we served, especially in the very early years. Thankfully, I enjoyed inviting folks over for a … Continue reading Hospitality
Urban Calm
I was fortunate to live out in the country for many years. Shady backroads, ruler straight corn rows, and a fox running through an apple orchard was an elixir for all that ailed. I live in the ‘burbs’ now and during this pandemic, there have been many times I longed to be sitting once again … Continue reading Urban Calm
Pans-giving
Pans-giving I do not mean to make light of what, as a world, we have been going through these past months. It has been awful. I’m a pretty, take-it-on-the-chin, kind of gal for the most part, but even I feel myself crumbling under the isolation, the loss of all things familiar, and the lack of … Continue reading Pans-giving
So…
“It’s not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.”So, winter is on the cusp. Today, in my neck of the woods, the high will be in the forties. When I woke up this morning, it was twenty-eight degrees and extremely hard to kick the covers off. … Continue reading So…
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