We live in a small town. A very small town. Well, there are smaller towns, but by comparison to the city of 60,000 where I grew up, this is an itty bitty town. So, of course we get the small town newspaper and the headline in last Thursday’s paper really caught my eye. It said…
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A shout out to my guy
So, if you’ve been reading my blog, or know me at all, you know I had surgery six weeks ago. Well, you may not have been counting the days, but I was. My actual “six-week mark” was yesterday. The reason this day was important is because they told me my recovery would take six weeks….
Handling Defining Moments
Last week Lindsay Willlis, was the speaker at our church’s monthly women’s worship service, Chick Night. Since I last blogged about why God allows pain, I wanted to share with you some of the thoughts that Lindsay shared at Chick Night. She called moments of pain, and moments of joy in our life “defining moments.”…
Why does God allow pain?
Tonight I watched “Love Comes Softly,” a Hallmark movie about a man and woman who get married because of their mutual need. The woman needs a husband to take care of her, (remember this movie is scripted in the wagon train days) and the man needs a mother for his daughter. The husband is a…
Flashback
Last night I was wandering through the grocery store, making my way around the numerous floral displays brought in for Valentine’s day. Apparently, most of the men in Cannon Falls pick up their flowers from Econo Foods, because there were enough bouquets there for almost every man in town. But, it wasn’t the flowers that…