This was not an easy weekend. I spent most of my hours struggling with some new health information. It’s not life threatening, and hopefully not permanent, but it does present some challenges. The issue is not the purpose of this blog, and since I’ve heard that you can consider someone old when they start publicly…
Looking for a Good Read?
I decided the other day that I was going to make a list of all the books I’ve read since the beginning of the year. I was pretty amazed to realize that I’ve already read ten. Of course, we had that whole television blackout in January, which left me plenty of reading time, but still,…
Moving
I’m moving! Well, not actually physically moving, just moving my blog. For the past several months I’ve been posting my blog here, and on my website, nancyholte.com. I wanted everything to be “just right” before I made the big announcement and moved everything to just that one location and now the time has come. I…
What’s So Good About Good Friday?
What’s so good about Good Friday? This is a question that I consider just about every year as we enter into Easter week. Why would they name the day we commemorate Christ’s brutal crucifixion “good”? It was horrible. Our Lord and Savior was beaten, abused, mocked and nailed to a tree while onlookers watched him…
Our Swazi “Daughter”
I have just one more story to tell you about our trip to Swaziland. In theory, this should be an easy story to tell but in reality I’ve struggled more with writing it than with any other. The short story here is that we were able to meet the little girl that we sponsor through…