Pumpkin Pie and Baked Squash It was Thanksgiving morning. With family spread far and wide our celebration would be nothing big, but nonetheless important. Being a household of multiple dietary needs, I set out to make double of nearly everything. No one was going to be left out this year! Pumpkin pie is my husband’s favorite and the first thing I […]
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Bread Crumbs This morning I dug through my journals, a collection of my personal prayers, favorite Bible promises, and miracle stories. I picked up the oldest and fattest journal. Inside was a wad of folded papers. After twenty years I was curious as to what they were. I was awash in mixed emotions as I unfolded
Under the Radar I braced myself as we prepared to land on a small gravel runway. I was nineteen, in the Canadian arctic, beyond civilization, in a land inhabited by grizzly bears. The plan was that my eighteen-year-old pilot friend would return with his mother and then we would hike to the edge of the
Wasps On A War Path The wedding celebration was ready to begin. We scanned the seating arrangements and found our assigned table. I was delighted to find that my chair was beside two little girls ages two and four. It was more than I could resist, I reached out and brushed the cheek of the
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Thank Him Before It Happens Sometimes God lets us sink low to get our attention, then when the time is right picks us up, dusts us off, and lavishes us with His love. Both my husband I were discouraged. It had nearly been a year to the day since we felt God had told us
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Bandaged Babies It was a cold winter day. The plastic windows snapped in the wind and the fire in the woodstove crackled and popped. It was too cold to play anywhere but by the fire. An upturned block of firewood stood by the woodstove where my dad had sat warming himself after a cold day of
It Can’t Always Be Pancakes and Pastries “Mom, do we have to have oatmeal porridge again?” If I had had my way I would have eaten pancakes and pastries every morning and skipped porridge all together! I moaned and complained but Mom never gave in. Unless it was the weekend, porridge it was. Mom knew
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Just Like Daddy Although my sister and I were very much “little girls” who played with dolls and pretended to cook, we also adored our Daddy and wanted to be like him. It made no difference to Dad that we were girls. On special occasions, he took us to work. We were taught to shift
When mom Said Wait Our daughter was fascinated with designing clothes. I got an idea off of Pinterest to make a dress form out of duct tape and helped her decorate her bedroom like a sewing shop. We arranged folded pieces of fabric along with patterns, we found at the thrift store, on shelves for
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Open Your Mouth Wide Our daughter was soon to be leaving for boarding academy. Like many of my stories this came at a time when again the local economy was in decline. Our sole income was from our cabinet shop, and it struggled to stay alive. It was one of those seasons in life where
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