After 10 hours of driving, my husband and I walked into his parents’ house. I love coming to their spacious home. It is a place of beauty and respite for me. My mother-in-law has both the means and the talent for creating spaces worthy of a photographer’s lens. Over the years, I have come to accept that her taste and style far outweigh mine. So I should have been prepared to find, as soon as we entered, that the back wall wasn’t where it used to. Added on to the rear of the house was a large, bright sunroom.
Everyday Life
A Call to Pray
I feel a new weight of responsibility, a heaviness. This confuses me since life is marching along quite well at this time.
To our Son and his Bride on their Marriage
On the brink of their marriage, we—the parents of the groom—said these words to our son and his bride.
Onward and Upward
Welcome to my new blog site. I'm so glad you found me. The name is the same and all my previous posts are here so you won't miss anything. In 2013, I timidly stuck my big toe in the world of blogging, ready to pull it back out if it got too uncomfortable. Many of … Continue reading Onward and Upward
Unfinished Tasks
I like to cross things off my to-do list. I use tear-off notepads and make lists and lists of what needs to get done today and in the coming days. My lists include unwanted tasks as well as life-giving ones. Then I set to work to accomplish them and cross them off. Done. Finished. Wrapped up. Nice and neat. List tossed in the trash. While some of my friends enjoy the process, I find more delight in the completion. Only then can I rest.
Diamonds are Forever?
As I was leaving the office yesterday, I had a large box in my arms. I pushed open the heavy automatic door but it shut before I was fully outside. My left hand was crushed between the door and the box I was holding. My diamond was gone!
Mothers and Sons
Vignette One “I prayed for that! This is the answer to my prayer”, I thought as I listened to my son tell me his journey with Jesus and how he was responding. But then he told me of a friend, a special young woman, who prayed more specifically than I did, who actually challenged … Continue reading Mothers and Sons
Cleaning Out and Saving Stuff
Honoring ones parents is a strange thing. Suddenly they are gone and the stuff, the material stuff, stays here. What was collected over a life time, used, treasured and stored is now touched, remembered, laughed at, kept or tossed by the ones left behind.
Pondered Treasures 