Feb
22
2022
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I never wear ear buds.
I don’t even own a pair.
I don’t think I would like the feel of them in my ears.
More than that, I don’t want to miss the sounds all around me.
When I walk each morning, I carry my phone with me.
I pull out the pop socket and get a good grip, so it can record my steps.
I turn on a Bible study podcast that I listen to each morning.
I follow that with a short podcast of daily news.
Feb
18
2022
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I met a friend for breakfast.
The restaurant has beautiful canvas photographs on the walls.
Many of the bucolic scenes are from local farms.
Some of the photographs are close-up pictures of animals.
As I put my things into the booth, my friend went to get her coffee.
I looked up at the canvas picture above me.
It was my son’s dog!
The photograph was not actually his dog, but it might as well have been.
Feb
15
2022
Posted in Salvation 2 Comments
I went to a conference over the weekend.
It was a creativity conference recognizing the importance of collaboration and community.
The conference itself was called The Inklings Conference.
The Inklings were a group of writers who gathered at the University of Oxford.
The group consisted of writers, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield to name a few.
The men met for almost twenty years.
They shared their writing and discussed their works in progress.
Feedback and encouragement were the order of the day.
Feb
11
2022
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Toddler-hood is a wonderfully exciting time.
Toddler-hood is also exhausting and not for the faint of heart.
I have been through the toddler years five times with each of my children.
I am now watching it from a different perspective with my grandchildren.
There is potty training during these toddler years.
There is training in manners.
There is training in patience, which can be a tough concept for a toddler to learn.
The world revolves around the toddler, according to them.
Feb
8
2022
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I was a few rows behind her.
She was in her mother’s arms as we were all singing at church.
I would guess that she was about five years old.
Her mother lifted her so she could see a bit better.
If truth be told, her mother lifted her because there will come a time when she will be too big.
There will come a time when this will be in the rear view mirror.
But for now, it was special to them.
It was a sweet thing to witness from my perspective.
Feb
4
2022
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My husband carried the book into the kitchen.
I forgot I had this, he said, opening it on the kitchen island.
It was a book with the name of the company he worked with for forty years on the cover.
It was a book that was published when the company changed its name twenty-two years ago.
Look at this, he said.
He showed me a page with very neat penmanship in the margin.
It was written by his father.
His father had worked at the same company many years ago.
Feb
1
2022
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We had a dead bat in our basement.
It has happened before.
It happened many years ago in the house we lived in before our current home.
I thought it was a one time thing.
I remember that winter morning.
I woke up and got dressed before the children were awake.
The house was very cold.
Something was wrong.
Dec
21
2021
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Christmas is fast approaching. It is family time. Our new grandbaby is expected to arrive in early January. I want to be available to help my daughter. As God allows, a new Whisper will be published on February 1, 2022. It will be five weeks until we meet again in this quiet space. God is whispering all around you. Be still enough to hear Him. Have a Blessed Christmas with your family and friends.
Dec
18
2021
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On top of my Hoosier cabinet, there are wooden blocks that spell a word.
The word is, BELIEVE.
I thought about those blocks as I was sitting at the kitchen table.
I don’t remember where I even purchased them; they seem to have been around forever.
Believe in what?
What is it you believe in at Christmas time?
The object of your belief tells you a lot about yourself.
The object of your belief tells you a lot about your worldview.
Dec
14
2021
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I ran out of Christmas cards.
I ordered far too few.
I thought I could just order more.
Seemed right for me to do.
I put items in my shopping cart.
Much less than the time before.
Until I saw the total cost.
The amount was so much more.