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The loss of a friend

I lost a friend last week. She passed on. I am sure I have told you about her because she was a one of a kind sweetheart. She was physically disabled but more alive than most people I know. My friend couldn’t walk. She had some rare form of Muscular Dystrophy....

WHY GOD?

Have there been times in your life when you don’t understand how a God who loves you could allow you to be so heartbroken and not step in to stop it? I had a time like this several years ago. It was when my two boys became convinced that they should go live with...

FOUNDATION ISSUES

I must admit when I had my home built in 2007 I had no idea that ten years later I would have significant foundation issues. Yet with each passing day, cracks in my walls seem to propagate like flies on honey. I have needled the construction company from the first...

DISAPPOINTING THE HOMELESS

I had to go that way anyhow. I might as well call my homeless friend and ask her if she needed some food. She did. She said she was starving. So I started to prepare a lunch for her. Then my phone rang. My son needed some information to apply for financial aid. He...

My mother’s gift of gardening

My mother has spent countless hours in her garden. She used to have our house littered with house plants. Many times she would not go on trips because she did not want to leave her plants. I frankly thought she was a little nuts in the gardening department. She...