I was 13 when we Californians made a rare trip to spend the holidays with our Cleveland relatives. My eldest cousin took over the social planning one evening, insisting we see a holiday movie recently filmed in the area. The movie stared Peter Billingsley, the kid from the … [Read more...]
What Kind of Blog is This, Anyway?
When I first came up with the whole Nature of a Servant thing on Blogger, it was strictly to keep myself accountable to my 2012 New Year’s Resolution. In fact, at first I didn’t even want it public. Then I figured the more friends/family/strangers that knew, the more to whom I’d … [Read more...]
Family Sabbath
Years ago when we lived in the OC and attended The Church We Loved, the teaching pastors asked the congregation to take a Sabbath. A true Sabbath. And by “true”, they meant, “whatever means ‘rest’ for you”. To encourage this, 2 weekly Sunday worships were identical for one … [Read more...]
Did You Remember? Will We Remember?
Can we stay this close, always? Did you remember to tell your husband you love him when he left for that errand at the mall? Or did you get frustrated because he was supposed to pick up whatever it was last week. Did you remember to hug and kiss your kids and to tell them … [Read more...]