There is a window in the door of my classroom, and I’m going to have you look through it to watch my class over this last month. We have been doing one thing. Verb conjugations. Day after day after day the same thing, in preparation for their final exam. First the students had to be…
On Friday afternoon I went to the grocery store, and as I was going down one aisle I smelled something strong and yucky. Looking up, I saw cones blocking off a damp section of the aisle. My imagination had me thinking maybe they had cleaned up throw up. Was it throw up? As I walked…
We came home with a little instrument, and every night I had to insert it into the palate-spreading apparatus in the top of my girl’s mouth. (When I had braces they called it a palate splitter, which seemed more appropriate.) One time I started the turn and didn’t realize the tool wasn’t inserted into the…
I may lose all credibility when I tell you this, but my son has talked me into watching a few Dr. Who episodes. It’s mostly ridiculous science fiction, which is why I scoffed for a long time, but The Doctor is quirky and appealing. Then I found out he he had secret pain, having lost…
I sat down on the plastic chair in front of the table, and the man placed a form in front of me. I couldn’t read it, my eyes swimming with tears. Setting down the pen, I buried face in hands and cried win-the-lottery, can’t-believe-I’m-finally-doing-this, dream-coming true tears. Months ago God put this in front of me, the same months…
Yesterday I assigned my beginning Spanish students to make vocabulary flashcards. They kept asking me, What does this mean? What does this mean? I soon discovered the vocabulary list had no English definitions, only the Spanish words. I had given them an impossible task. Oops. Today I shall help these poor students, by providing definitions…
Here is the sequence of events: My heartfelt prayer that God will help me love and show great care for my new Spanish students. Looking in the bathroom mirror the night before the school open house, when I will meet all of these students for the first time. Seeing humongous zit on chin. Horror. The…
My dad was doing a tour of duty in Vietnam when I was a baby. He saw unspeakable horrors there. Because of this experience, my dad was obsessed with war. In our living room we had a Time full-volume pictorial set on WWII. We watched war movies and documentaries about emaciated Jews in concentration camps…
This video is weighty, just to give you a heads up, but it so exactly parallels what church is like that I urge you to watch it. When I read that Jesus looks at crowds of people and has compassion for them, I imagine this is what He sees.
I am a hub. As a pastor’s wife, I count it my highest honor to receive women’s stories. I seem to be a safe landing place for all the whispered secrets of a woman’s life. Recently I met with a woman and tucked another rose in the bouquet of stories filling my heart. This is what…
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