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When I was a little girl, I loved to call my grandmother. But I couldn’t call her on Saturday nights from 6 to 7 p.m. That was when the Lawrence Welk Show was on and she loved to watch this show. She loved the dancing. The romance. The clear melodies and the big band. Tonight…

I once saw a sculpture by Dean Kermit Allison. It was sculpted from glass and bronze. A new glass man was coming out of a bronze torso and feet. It was titled, Reborn. I remember being struck by its beauty that day at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas. It spoke to me about…

This is an extrapolation of the word admit, which means to concede as true or valid. I have to concede as true or valid that I have to get fit again. I have to readmit. I have a bunch of excuses. Stress. A shoulder injury. Stress. Traveling. Taking care of someone else. And, left to…

Today would be my dad’s 79th birthday. He died in 2002 following a battle with cancer. Seventeen years seems like yesterday and like forever, all at the same time. He was fun loving and funny. The best dad. I remember him often. Miss him terribly. ❤

As you know, I’m staying with my mom while she recuperates from knee replacement surgey. This is a repeat of what we did about nine months ago. To help keep the swelling down we’re using an “ice” machine that circulates icy water through a hose to a pad that goes on her knee. The cold…

Reactive is a ready response to a stimulus. There are some things we want to be reactive to and others we do not. Sneezing is a reaction — your body is being reactive to the stimulus of an allergen or other foreign particle. You want this to happen because your lungs and nose are expelling…

Keck has been reading about managing stress. One of the ways he read about is something called grounding. Tonight he sat in the front yard with his bare feet in the grass for 30 minutes. The purpose is to rebalance the electrons in your body. It seems, say the experts, that our modern life keeps…

Just add water. Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”  John 4:10, NET I once tried to focus on drinking water during Lent. I…

As I looked at the odometer on my 2006 car, I realized that there are nearly 162,000+ miles on it. I was driving back to Oklahoma to help out my mom. While it wasn’t an exciting drive or a full onslaught of Sunday morning praise and worship, I found myself rejoicing. I have no car…