Tuesday night I made a purse out of loose ends I found around the house. I cut the body out of the legs of black cotton jeans, discarded when I was 40 pounds heavier. The zipper I ripped out of a fanny pack on which “Gold Strike” was embroidered. I don’t know what that phrase …
Category Archives: Spiritual Formation
Winter Sustenance
Like ‘50s farm women who canned corn in August for January sustenance, we can store up God’s word in the cellars of our hearts. Such stored wisdom can carry us through our spiritual winters. When tragedy and disappointment threaten to overwhelm our trust in God’s goodness, those summer-stored words can nourish us. “Though he slay …
A Sure Foundation
“That steel I-beam sure looks strong.” My husband and I had just awakened this morning in the unfinished basement of my daughter’s two-story house. “It looks strong, but in a fire, wood would only char. That steel is like hard wax–it would melt. A beam of several pine 2x12s nailed and glued together would maintain …