My son, Cole, who is 15, loves being a small group leader at Ada Bible Church for the 1st grade boys. This is a picture one of his boys drew of him. It’s actually a pretty good likeness. Cole is leaving on a missions trip tomorrow, so I’ll be filling in....
My daughter (on the right) went on a missions trip with her youth group to Costa Rica. She got home last Tuesday, at about 11:30 p.m. That same night, my sister was flying in from Colorado an hour later, so our family stayed at the airport and huddled around a table...
It was a rainy Saturday afternoon. I told my room mates to go on to lunch; I wasn’t hungry. Really, I wanted to be alone when I made a certain phone call. I dialed the number, heard the familiar voice. Then in a matter of moments, I severed a relationship that...
My friend was shopping for shoes, when she heard a mom, close-by say, “Lilly…” Then, when no response came, she rose from the bench said again, “Lilly?” Surrounded by shoe boxes, the mom turned in a circle, scanning the perimeter. With...
Last week, I took my 11-year-old with me to Costco. (Why do so many of my stories take place at Costco??) He had just been there on a field trip, and received a badge with the Costco logo and his name on it, which resembled an employee name tag. So he was wearing it,...
Last time, I told about the fish Cole got for his birthday, and the teensy weensy fish fry, which we left in the care of Aunt Joy, while we went on vacation. I left off, just at the point, where we returned home, dashed to the bathroom, and stopped short, with our...