I get only what’s on the list. Gingerale and saltines to settle her stomach, a family sized box of cheerios and a gallon of milk so the kids can make their own breakfast if I’m tied up taking care of my mom. I toss a bunch of easy to make lunch stuff into the cart, things the kids can manage in a pinch. I grab some fruit and almond butter. We just have to make it until dinner. Our church fills in slots on the calendar to drop off casseroles and soups, crusty bread baked fresh in their ovens …
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When Your Mom Breaks Her Back and Then Teaches You the Gospel Again
I answer my phone with a joke. “Did you lock yourself in the chicken coop again?” It wouldn’t be the first time she’d gone out in the morning to feed the chickens and collect eggs to find the latch had fallen into place and locked her in with the flock. But the voice on the other end wasn’t joking. “I fell, I’m hurt…I think I broke my back.” The voice is my mom and yet not my mom, strangled and gasping for breath. I’ve never heard her sound like that. I am out the back door scanning our …
It Speaks to Me
It's been a long time since I've done a links post partly because I've been busy with my book and haven't been reading as much, but there's some good stuff out there so I resurrected ~It Speaks to Me~ so you'd have a chance to read these too if you missed them among the 180 million blogs in the world. How Culture Affects Our Expectations of Leaders by Sandra Maria Van Opstal for Christianity Today Gender, ethnic, or socioeconomic biases affect how we choose leaders. In his book on Asian …
