Use What You Have

If it hadn’t been for my service on “The Food Panel,” a volunteer gig with our local newspaper, I might never have heard about, or understood the importance of an immersion blender. I wouldn’t call myself a foodie. I just wanted to write. When I saw the ad for volunteers in 2009, I submitted my…

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Marriage 101

I’m no marriage expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I do know a thing or two. I have been married for 33 years and, while I expect to be married at least twice this long, it’s still a fairly significant amount of time. So I’m going to share two Biblical principles that have…

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Our Future’s Kingdom View

For years I ignored this fascination that others have had with their ancestry, with their roots. I didn’t see the need or the use for it. At all. That is, until I got cataracts. I know that’s a strange leap, but these tiny little things on my eyes – too small to even remove yet…

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Practicing the Principles of Peace

How did we get so far out of balance? In the beginning was perfection, the likes of which our world today cannot fathom. Creation flowed in skilled precision as if the wind, rain, and sunshine were on a perfect release schedule, nature’s acrobatic dance over all the earth. But suddenly, the rain turned to snow…

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