Easter cookies, one for each member of our family, compliments of Bridgy! I’ve been rolling out cookie dough on this old marble washstand for nearly 30 years! I bought it in 1992, at the old Spivey’s Antique store on May Avenue in Oklahoma City. Two years after I bought it, I found a wonderful recipe […]
Insight and inspiration on the Christian faith and from a Gen X blogger including the connection between God and religion and Generation X.
Spring Break
I took Sullivan and Bridgette to Tennessee for Spring Break for a long overdue visit with my oldest sister. (You can see a picture of us on Instagram.) She will have major surgery on March 27, and I’m not too proud or shy to ask anyone reading this post to please say a prayer for […]
Pray More Novenas
Pray More Novenas PrayMoreNovenas.com A novena is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity. About Novenas Nine Days Novena means nine in Latin. Novenas are public or private prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. Grace During a novena, you make petitions, implore favors, or obtain graces by worshiping Jesus Christ. Express During […]
Withholding Love
The other day, I heard my late mother’s spirit tell me to write from my heart. That the secret to my success as a writer would come from being honest. I need to excavate the truth to the tip of my tongue, and no longer second-guess the Spirit that flows through me. I have to […]
All In
When I saw her body laying on the kitchen floor, I was overcome with sorrow. All the life had gone out of her. It slipped away in the dark morning of Christmas Eve. I know she raged against it. After all, she had fought for years to stay with us. Through endless procedures and countless trips […]
Inside My Mother’s Bible, This Purple Satin Bookmark
My mother had her first heart attack the year I turned 21. It was the late 1980s, and the country was in a recession. Junk bonds had collapsed and stocks had crashed. Both my parents were unemployed, and for months neither one of them could find work. Sadly, my mom had lost her job due […]
Things She Handed Down: Perfect Seams, Perfect Faith
Will you laugh just like your mother Will you sigh like your old man Will some things skip a generation Like I’ve heard they often can Are you a poet or a dancer A devil or a clown Or a strange new combination of The things we’ve handed down — Marc Cohn, 1993 It has […]
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