Tag: love
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Do You See What I See?
God, help us look at what matters I see the outside worldThrough a distorted lens.CondensationCovers the glass, a wallBetween us. Inside counters outside,Which blurs my vision.I touch the glassTo remove the moisture.It is dry. Humidity’s teardropsAre on the other side.The differencesAlter my view of you.Oh, to see! So I open the door,Step outside from inside,To […]
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This is what love looks like
If you saw a little Marilyn Monroe action in the parking lot of Walmart last Sunday afternoon, it might have been me. I had no time for a flirty, bashful “oh no!” look as my dress flew in the breeze. I was fighting a thunderstorm that had blown my umbrella — and my dress — inside […]
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Look for the message in the mess
I tend to tromp hastily through life’s messes in an attempt to get them behind me. I wondered if I’d missed part of God’s message to me because of my tendency to hurry.
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The day your love language is “acts of plumbing”
As we removed old brown wax from the toilet flange, I realized that my husband’s project was also mine.
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Humbled by love…
The day my husband and I became grandparents our children began to parent us. It was quite humbling. It began as any other day when you are driving hundreds of miles away from your daughter, who is about to give birth, toward your oldest son, who is about to get married. Timing is everything. In a […]
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“Bootiful” and a “looker”…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about boots — shallow topic, I know — but it got me thinking about something deeper. Since I had mentioned my friend Kathy in the post, I thought it only right to share the link to the post with her (and hope she wasn’t offended by my references to her summer […]
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Love makes the worship go ’round…
Once was a time when I attended church for the singing. As I matured, I learned to love the sermons as much as the singing, but a few weeks ago, I realized that I now to go church despite the music. I had attended our church’s “Old Fogey” service (i.e. hymns and old praise music […]
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The photos I didn’t take…
Down at the beach, as the sun begins to set, the photography begins in earnest. Romantic couples and lovely families – bedecked in coordinated clothing — are stalked by professional photographers with mammoth cameras. You can hear commands such as “OK, Mom and Dad, get close together. Kids, do you know how to ‘Ring Around […]
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Reading between the dots…
I love ellipses… If you’ve been reading my blog posts for any length of time, you may have noticed I use ellipses often at the end of my post titles. Doing so (at least so often) breaks grammar etiquette — according to the Grammar Girl. I love grammar, and I teach English. Not only that, […]
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This is love…
More than a dirty door that could use a fresh coat of paint, I saw love in the pair of sunglasses tucked carefully on the doorknob. It was the side entrance to our house, and I noted nothing special until I reached out to open it. When I saw the glasses, I smiled. I was loved. […]
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Do you ever do dumb things?
When I was a teenager, I thought the unpardonable sin was having premarital sex. (My parents were quite the strategic Bible teachers, and as I celebrated “Sweet 16 and never been kissed”—closely followed by Sweet 17 and 18—clearly, they also were effective. The night before my wedding, in fact, their bizarre teachings continued when my […]
All Things Work Together 