Now Serving: Fruit Salad

August 3, 2012 By

Vaite Zests a Lemon While Cadence and a Nameless Dinosaur Observe. Independence Day, 2012. Careful Preparations My niece Vaite offered to make fruit salad when our pastor and his family came for brunch during her visit. I was relieved: my arthritic hands fatigue before much peeling and chopping is done, these days, and I could trust […]


Filed Under: Colossians 3, comfort, encouragement, God's omnipotence, guest, Pastor Robert Jacobsen, Tahiti, thanksgiving, trust

My First Job

June 13, 2012 By

Your Assignment, Boys, is to Make Funny Faces Before Bedtime. Grandsons Cadence (5), and Ayden (7). January, 2012.  The Unexpected “Paycheck” I was 11 the summer our Neighbor Lady asked me to help her out around her home. She was babysitting two grandchildren and wanted me to supervise the children while she was out attending […]


Filed Under: Colossians 3, friends, God's omnipotence, grandchildren, guest, work

Being In Task, Not On Task

February 29, 2012 By

My Office. The Incredible Sweetness of Being, Part FiveAt my office, late in the day on December 30, I turned to a spreadsheet. The office was quiet, our numbers thinned by holiday vacations and a flu bug. All my more urgent, complex tasks of the week, the month–the year–were done. A spreadsheet awaited me, though. […]


Filed Under: be, beauty, Colossians 3, creation, God's omnipotence, work

The Man who Didn’t Raise Me

September 19, 2011 By

Rod Seiler, Enjoying a Card. Father’s Day, 2011.  Celebrating my Father on His Birthday “Your mom did a good job raising you and your brother and sister,” my dad said to me one day as we sat, just the two of us, talking.  My eyes widened. “Dad,” I said, “You did a good job, too!” “It […]


Filed Under: barbecue, birthday, blessings, child, Colossians 3, discipline, father, love

The Man who Didn’t Raise Me

September 19, 2011 By

Rod Seiler, Enjoying a Card. Father’s Day, 2011.  Celebrating my Father on His Birthday “Your mom did a good job raising you and your brother and sister,” my dad said to me one day as we sat, just the two of us, talking.  My eyes widened. “Dad,” I said, “You did a good job, too!” “It […]


Filed Under: barbecue, birthday, blessings, child, Colossians 3, discipline, father, love
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