I went to Sunday school today. I think the last time I attended a Sunday school class– as a student, not as an assistant or a teacher– was in April. It was nice, for a change, to Not have to have all the answers, or even Most of them. It was nice to be sitting […]
Read moreWe held the 3rd HopeFest last Sunday. It was a beautiful day, and a beautiful event, and Bill is Not Entirely Discouraged from giving it another go next year… But that is for another post. We truly had glorious weather, and surely that is a Sign From God, is it not? We can plan until […]
Read moreThis morning I stripped the dirty sheets from my bed and put them in the washing machine and started it. I also Put Clean Sheets On My Bed. I also made certain the children made their beds. And I wasn’t late for school.
Read moreYou who live in heavenHear the prayers of those of us who live on earthWho are afraid of being left by those we loveAnd who get hardened by the hurt.Do you remember when You lived downhere where we all scrapeTo find the faith to ask for daily bread?Did You forget about us after You had […]
Read moreWhy should it be that a Large and Hideous cockroach, filled with all the scuttling and squalid vivacity of its wretched life, is making its way across my ceiling, while the dear cat I loved for fifteen years is dead?
Read moreHe stands in the doorway. He won’t come all the way through. He is on the way to work. But he has something to say before he goes. “All my life I’ve been buying pants that are 34, 30,” he says. I know this. “It’s the wrong size,” he says and, as proof, offers me […]
Read moreSometimes all I want to be is a Missing Person.
Read moreThis has been my phrase of late. I don’t know where I got it, really, but it applies. Perhaps you know the expression? It’s the sort of thing you say when you think that maybe you have too much on your plate, or that maybe, this time, this one latest addition to that plate has […]
Read moreYou know, the thing about parenting is that there’s no handbook. No manual. No real instruction At All. So people try to create these things. You’ve seen them: You and Your Daughter, The Strong-Willed Child, Raising Boys, Six Points for Raising Happy, Healthy Children. All worthwhile, I’m sure, in their way. All worth reading. And […]
Read moreA friend sent me this poem today and, although I had never read or heard it before, I find that I know it well. Night sounds At night your children askin cries for you to come to them In the space between sleep and lightyou pull on a baby sling, tuck in small fingerssoothing who […]
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