God’s Favorites
My 6yo: Do you know God’s favorite football team? The Saints! (He was listening to this morning’s sermon, intro to Philippians addressed to the saints if God.)
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April 2019
Our nature display changes more with the seasons, now that we are in a more traditional winter/spring/summer/autumn climate. It’s spring now. See the twig that had new buds on it, before A6 dissected...
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Hero Mother
With four boys in tow all holding hands, I remember hurrying to the metro in Kyiv in the early 2000s. “Oh, a Hero-Mother!” A babushka would stop me, exclaiming over them, tightening one boy’s scarf and...
View ArticleWriting and Blogging and Facebook, Oh My!
I have been writing a lot lately. I have a collection of composition books and in each one I have lists and jots of ideas and sermon notes and journals. My writing is serving a purpose for me. But I...
View ArticleListening Children
My father-in-law is in hospice care at home. We know he is trusting Jesus and that his time to leave this broken world will be soon. Needless to say, it’s been an intense week. We’ve all be at the...
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Remembering, With Love
1941 – 2019 Sunday evening my father-in-law entered into his eternal Sabbath rest, just as my mother-in-law prayed that morning. Abide with me: fast falls the eventide: The darkness deepens; Lord, with...
View ArticleI Have a Soul That Can Never Die
Pop died last night, about 8 pm. After all of our watching at his bedside for the past nearly two weeks, it still came as a shock. Perhaps it was more of a shock because he was finally sleeping,...
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Eulogy for John Bush
As the oldest son, my husband was the one to deliver the eulogy for my father-in-law, John Bush. This is what he shared. My father passed away this week after a long, brave fight with cancer. He was...
View ArticleWidows and Orphans and Big Brothers
We are reading through James in family worship, and read this the other day: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to...
View ArticleUpon Arrival in Kosovo
“I want to ride the train!” says my four year old daughter as she sees an elongated bus pull up outside the airport terminal doors. We are at gate E60 at FRA and I’ve lost track of how many hours since...
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