Dear Heavenly Father, Your very name is holy- set apart. Words, in any language, cannot adequately contain the wonder of your name. May...

As Millie took that walk from her son’s hospital room to the small conference area, the cold, unforgiving, light injected its numbing...

My granddaughter Scarlett picked blueberries with her Poppy recently. It was the very first batch from our wild blueberry bush. She had...

Mom. She paid attention. She was a quiet observer. My Momma didn't rush through anything. I always remember her taking her sweet time,...

We’ve probably all seen posts on social media that say something to the effect of ‘I’m done with people who bring me down’...’ I’m only...

Once, a counselor asked me if I could wave a magic wand over my life, making it be how I wanted it to be, what would I change? I thought...

To Be Ten ~by Kate To be ten, The Waking. That brink Between little child and knowingness. When finding and breathing and running down...

During this endless, hot summer, as the sticky days slowly languish on, I've turned my attention away from reality and have fallen prey...

Today, I have been thinking about Life. Abundant Life. When I think of living abundantly, I remember eating a peach for the first time....

I’ve experienced being under good leadership in my life, as well as being subjected to a few who lacked that special gifting for it. I...

As a kid, we moved around a lot. My dad was in the Air Force, so we ended up moving six times during my childhood. My family loved the...

If a movie were to be made about my life, the opening scene should go something like this... A stretch of Colorado highway appears with...

Kids are naturally curious as well as creative. They haven’t learned anything about what typically goes where quite yet, although they...

I ran into an acquaintance yesterday and we began exchanging the usual, "How's it going?" He told me that his car was in the shop and...

When my parents retired to Florida, Mom planted this young gangly looking magnolia tree in our front yard and proceeded to tenderly care...

We celebrated our country’s freedom the first week of July, and here in Pensacola, we watched the Blue Angels' airshow. Recently, the...

I was a daydreamer. This used to get me in trouble in class when my teacher caught me gazing out the windows, starry-eyed, caught in my...

I took piano lessons when I was a kid, starting around the age of ten. My fascination with the piano, along with my musical education,...

Although I have been productively writing, I have also enjoyed one of my favorite escapes - reading. Over the last several months, I have...