When I was young, I had the answers but nobody asked me questions. Now that I am old. people ask me questions but I don’t have answers. Elizabeth Elliot I loved listening to Gateway to Joy when I was a younger mom. And although it stopped airing in 2001 you can still listen to the wisdom of Elizabeth Elliot using the link provided. Her words and this particular quote so resonates with my life. When…
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It was 1982. I was in the Navy and living in the Philippines. I still remember the call. With a twelve-hour time difference between Manila and Washington DC, it was a surprise to hear my father’s voice on the other end of the phone line. Yes, phones used to have cords that connected them to the wall. Dad knowing my love for current events and politics started the conversation. “Mary, good politicians know to keep…
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Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey Shane and Shane Psalms Vol. 2 in Spotify Focus on This Podcast 7-minute workout from Human Performance Institute App
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“Redeemed pain is more impressive than removed pain.” Philip Yancy Redeemed pain. While this resonates with what I know to be good and true it’s still such a hard pill to swallow. I can look back in the rearview mirror of my life and believe that God redeemed the pain in the loss of a child, in living through cancers, in the loss of relationships and death of loved ones. But it is in each new…
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I am at the stage of life where the weddings I am honored to attend are our friends’ children. At the most recent wedding I attended, I was sitting with couples who were all finished with their direct participation in educating their children. One woman stated that those years were particularly joyful. What she said next made me pause. She said, “I would do it over again, and this time I would know what I’m…
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Do you want to know the best habits of any relationship? This is so simple that it is easy to miss. Really easy to miss. That’s how it is in life. When something is so simple we think anyone and everyone can do this. But they don’t. We think we do this but we don’t. We don’t notice when we don’t do it but funny enough we do notice when others don’t do it. With…
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