Category: A Faithful Story
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October
It’s my favorite month. The leaves turn colors and are swept from the trees by the winds that promise cooler days are coming. Sweatshirts and shorts are appropriate attire and sandals can still grace the feet that have stopped tromping in the garden’s greens and reds and yellows. It’s my birthday month. Technically, that makes…
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Move the Knob
We sat on an old patchwork quilt spread out on bright green summer grass. “We” included me, my daughter, and a duck. Two red plastic plates held the remnants of our bologna and cheese sandwiches, carrot sticks and puddles of ranch dressing. The duck rested in my daughter’s lap, politely declining a nibble of carrot,…
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Obedience, Trust, and the Snapping Turtle Man
I like to travel back roads. Those winding roads where I’m more likely to meet a tractor going 25 than a semi going 80. That’s just how I roll. Kinda slow-like, past mossy ponds and cow pastures, through tree tunnels, around asphalt bends, over culverts through which flow creeks and cricks and branches once named…
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Not With the Wisdom of Words
“For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.”1 Corinthians 1:17 (NKJV) I can remember the first time I officially shared the gospel. I was pumping gas at a Chevron station on the corner…
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Stones That Write
On a Wednesday in March, my husband Eric and I had the young children’s lesson at church. The passage centered on The Triumphal Entry found in Luke 19. We read straight through the scripture, then Eric led the children into a question and answer session based on the passage. He focused first on verses 30…