So I told you that last week I had this great spiritual post written up, but then I got the first of the negative comments from the reviewers of Turtle Heart, and that took all smug feelings of wisdom right out the window. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve gotten lots of positive comments and support […]
I Am Not an Expert Read More »
Yesterday morning I composed a post of wise and spiritual thoughts–at least they seemed to me at the time–but when the clock rolled around to 8:40 and I still hadn’t hit “publish,” I realized I would have to wait. School starts at 9:00. I was still in my pajamas. I’m the teacher. Still the thing
In Which I Cut Off my Ear Read More »
“You have more faith than you think you have. You have faith enough to pray; you have faith enough to believe that you will be heard. Faith is a strange thing; it often conceals itself…Nevertheless, it is there.” -O. Hallesby I am reading Prayer, by Ole Hallesby–a Norwegian Christian who wrote in the early 1900’s–and
I sit here at my desk in the early morning of 6:30 A.M. The smell of fresh bread in the air, because either Dad or Mom creaked out of their bed at some ungodly hour to put ingredients in the bread machine, and then to form the dough into loaves when it was mixed, and
Morning at the Miller House Read More »
Once upon a time there was a shy little Mennonite girl–well, actually she was twenty-four and not a little girl at all, but because she was young and shy and mostly innocent, she felt like a little girl; and maybe a part of her always will. Let me start again. Once upon a time there
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