Uncategorized MY DADDY’S BIGGER! Judy the Bully dominated the pecking order of little girls on Chicago’s East 81st Street. I was the youngest of…
A Joseph Spirit Uncategorized THE FAMILY WHO PRAYS How do you do life without prayer? Our family knows we can’t. So we pray about everything. Just today a…
Uncategorized It Wasn’t Supposed To Be That Way! This was to be your year, Anna. Waiting for the fun-filled events of graduation to become a reality. But none of us…
Uncategorized HE SEES ME! I remember the first time I met him. Nearly shaking in my ten-year old boots and hiding behind my mother’s…
Uncategorized WHERE’S YOUR SECURITY BLANKET? We were scrambling and her tears were doing me in. Searching every nook and cranny, our granddaughter’s number one possession…
Uncategorized Permission to Feel Being left off the invitation list was the worst thing that could happen to a middle school girl. My first experience with…
Uncategorized The Fear of Falling I have a genuine fear of falling. Three serious tumbles did that to me. So I pray over my steps now. While touring…
Uncategorized HOW GRIEF MEANS YOU LOVED DEEPLY Grief is strange in so many ways. It hits you when you least expect it. A song, a smell or…
Uncategorized HOW TO BE A BALCONY PERSON His teary eyes scanned the crowd milling through the door. Glancing back and forth from the bench to the stands, he…
Uncategorized Three Ways to Loosen Your Grip I struggle letting go. Sentimental to the core, I tend to grasp things tightly. After 34 years in the same home,…
A Thankful Heart WHAT’S THE USE OF PRAYING? Mom prayed faithfully for her father. For twenty years she begged God to turn his heart around. To open his…
Uncategorized Can You See Jesus? I love when Jesus shows up. In our darkest hour, He reveals Himself in strange and unusual ways. We hear…
Uncategorized WHY YOU NEED A ROPE-HOLDER The very day I was diagnosed with breast cancer, we went to church. Barely listening. Barely singing. But I was there. The…
Uncategorized HOW TO OVERCOME THE TRIALS OF LIFE You can be as surefooted as a deer! Life is hard. Last week my cousin was diagnosed with cancer. In…
Uncategorized A SURE-PROOF PLAN OF ENDURANCE It’s strange. As much as the Lord has done in my life through the years, you’d think I’d never be shaken. He’s…