Sweetieland

  Can you say 1980’s?  The women pictured above are two of the strongest women I have ever known….and then there’s me.  Aunt Jean, on the left, was my father’s sister.  She struck out on her own at 16, leaving on a train.  Later, home in her late twenties, married, then became a widow with…

Last night I was in a meeting and out of my mouth came something I realized later is all too true in my world. I said something to the effect of “We have faith in the recession, we have faith in the messups, we have faith in the troubles to come, but we are lacking…

This morning I am going to celebrate 20 women who have come from Taiwan, China, and Japan to our small city. Their husband’s were transferred here and they have taken on a new homeland in their adulthood. These particular twenty have just completed a year long ESL class offered by folks in our church. I…