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My beloved mom turned 93 this week. It was hard losing my dad 10 years ago, but we have been …
My beloved mom turned 93 this week. It was hard losing my dad 10 years ago, but we have been …
In a world gone so heavy, with heads slung low in sorrowful sympathy, could it be that sometimes we need …
Do you know them, too? Beloved friends, kin of all kinds, who are facing their last even as most of us …
Remember that old saying, “If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy?” As our former neighbor Steve used to say, fuhgeddaboudit. …
The unexpected knock at the door. The friendly woman motioning to the candy dish on her table at the trade …
While searching for some old documents the other day, I came across a yellowed envelope containing my report cards from …
You were up for a job promotion, and it went to someone else. That audition for the role in the …
After more than forty years of life together, Mike and I have often joked that he functions as the gas, …
“I’ve seen you somewhere before…” It happens to all of us. That familiar face, but out of place. Mike and …
Originally posted on Tuesdays with Maggie:
With Christmas just past, I’ve been thinking about that family a lot. THAT family…you know the…
POTUS and FLOTUS we’re not, but guess what? Everyone (as long as you can pass a security check) is welcome to …
If the collective weight of grief could collapse a church, we’d be calling the insurance company already. Shirley, how can …
You know those times when you have to brake suddenly and take another exit? When you were heading to Chicago …
We never wrote that book. And now she has taken the stories with her. When the man we shared – …
With Christmas just past, I’ve been thinking about that family a lot. THAT family…you know the ones. The impoverished teenage …
I’m into bliss beyond measure – a new grandchild is due in June. Our children are coming home the week …
Planting trees is a spiritual activity, it seems to me. Active faith that the thing will grow, fervent hope that …
For the past 30 years or more, the month of October has been Retreat Season for me. Tops on my …
This girl adores the domestic alchemy of turning a house into a home. Call it what you will – …
I can’t believe she saved it all these years. The yellow post-it note caught my eye as we sifted through …
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Preach it, sister, I hear you. Except when you’re trying to …
There couldn’t be a more perfect way to spend a Friday evening. A week ago tonight, Mike and I plopped …
It never gets easier. Losing a member of your family never does. The bond has nothing to do with biology. …
Two months have passed since my beloved’s first surgery, elective. Second, emergent. Third, pneumonia that scared me to tears in the woman …
Have you ever felt stretched between competing needs in your family? Smushed like the filling spread too thin between two slices …
Originally posted on Women's News and Events at First Baptist, Wheaton:
Under the leadership of Natalie Lederhouse, the women of FBC had a wonderful weekend retreat event.…
It took me three years to figure it out. The answer, that is, to the two most frequent questions friends …
After I related the story of Libby and the fawn, the small moment shared in last week’s post, my coworker …
Cyber broom, anyone? Digital dust mop, maybe? This tiny space of real estate on the web has lain fallow for …
I sat in a Salt Cave on Sunday. No, not the kind that is springing up in day spas around …
You’d hate the song, too, if it had happened to you. It was 1978, and I was working Saturdays as …
It’s Election Day in the US of A, and by the time you read this we may well know who …
Are you one of those people who‘s completely impervious to how others regard you? Tell me how you manage it …
I have a hot tip for you today. If you’re planning on getting married anytime in the future, do not …
I was out of town this past Tuesday so once again I missed posting a “Tuesdays” reflection, but this week I …
Friends, thanks for reminding me when weeks have passed without a “Tuesdays with Maggie” post. I love connecting with you this …
If you want to study biblical principles for “welcoming the stranger” first-hand, there are few better places to do it …
“I’m so glad we are related in more ways than one,” our daughter Amber remarked this past Sunday morning. We were …
Yesterday I wrote about my young friend Jennifer Barrick, whose body and brain were battered five years ago when her …
It’s been over a month since I’ve done one of my Tuesday posts. My soul is just beginning to …
It’s the start of a new year, right? Time for inspiration, revelation or at least a resolution or two. Dieting? …
Congratulations to last week’s winner of Run to Overcome: Lisa Hansen of NYC! _____________________________________________________________________ Many of you reading this post …
So what do Eritrean-born Meb Keflezighi and Winfield, IL residents Dick and Marge Foster have in common? A love for …
I first became acquainted with C.S.Lewis’s classic Chronicles of Narnia as a college student when I took a modern mythology …
Don’t you love this cover? The dresses the women are wearing might be vintage 1950’s, but the book’s contents are for those of …
…Sarah Shrauger of South Yarmouth, Massachusetts! Sarah has won a copy of last week’s Freebie Friday giveaway: LOL with God: …
Congratulations to last week’s winner of A Pastor Prays for His People: Theresa Cann of New Hampshire! Living life at …
Congratulations to last week’s winner of the trio of historical novels by Jennifer Valent: Glenda Alexander Chilton of Superior, AZ! …
Congratulations to last week’s winner of Whisper on the Wind: Peggy Reu of Carol Stream, IL! What’s significant about 10.1.10? …
Congratulations to last week’s giveaway winner: Charlene Dennen of Cotuit, MA! Now that fall has officially arrived, it’s a great …
The winner of last week’s “Freebie Friday” giveaway copy of Beth Moore’s So Long, Insecurity is Kristi Stoughton of Hudson, MA. …
As far back as I can remember railroad tracks have intersected my life. The Illinois farm where I grew …
Introducing something new…Freebie Friday! What’s the fun of working in publishing if I can’t tell you about the books that …
No one, I suppose, tears up at the sight of an old wooden ice cream maker. No one has reason …
After a lengthy conference call with one of our authors yesterday afternoon to plan her media campaign, I returned to …
What’s the nicest thing you’ve heard your spouse say about you? No, this is not a rhetorical question: I really want …
I was at work last week when the end came so I didn’t attend the burial. Watch …
“I think I learned something today,” commented our oldest son, Adam. “And I figured it out when Liz went scooting …
Which would you choose if you had your druthers: visiting tour sites with a private guide or as part of …
Theologian Karl Barth once said, “Gratitude follows grace like thunder follows lightning.” It is Monday, July 05, and we are …