Unchained Melodye

Colloquialism: a local or regional dialect expression. It is interesting to converse with people who live in the  US and speak English, but actually speak a different language. Well it seems like a different language! We have lived in the Southeast, the Northwest, and now the Central Plains. In each place, we have observed  the “language barrier” still Continue reading

Monday, Monday. The Mamas and Papas had it right. I just “can’t trust that day.” And although Sundays may be “easy” according to Lionel Richie, there’s nothing easy about Mondays to me. They are typically my least favorite day of the week. I try to rehearse the truth: THIS is the day the Lord has made. I Continue reading

(These thoughts had been whirling around in my mind for years. Four years ago, I put them down on paper. I never want to forget that God came to earth to bring beauty from ashes .) The year was 1998. We called it “Christmas Eve Eve” even before that particularly eventful day. The Reeves kids (I’m Continue reading

More than ever (at least, in my lifetime) the stated reasons for celebrating the seasons are becoming a blurred mix of tradition and religion, of faith and fantasy, and of personal choices and political agendas. We’ve become a society of the overly offensive and the easily offended. We defend other’s rights to opinions, but we become defensive about our own convictions. Continue reading

I always love singing the songs that fill the radio stations this time of year – the ones about the birth of the promised Messiah who would live among people and would eventually die, but be raised again to save from a life of spiritual poverty those who receive Him. But this particular Christmas season there’s something special Continue reading