Out in the Fields
My favorite paintings and poems are about fields. Perhaps it’s because my favorite childhood memories are of running through the huge alfalfa field across the dirt road from our farmhouse. Broad, rolling, and uncluttered...
My favorite paintings and poems are about fields. Perhaps it’s because my favorite childhood memories are of running through the huge alfalfa field across the dirt road from our farmhouse. Broad, rolling, and uncluttered...
My daddy was a master craftsman and a huge force for good in my life. As a child I would often watch him at work, in awe of his skill at just about...
June means romance and roses. It also means the prom. My husband, Ken, who taught high school, had always donned his tuxedo this time of year—he and I would chaperone the seniors at their prom. The early hours...
Today I’m thinking of my daddy and the sheer determination that characterized so much of his life. As a little girl, I thought him larger than life, up to...
These are words of a God in love. God thinks my soul is beautiful when I praise him! It makes me want to praise him in word and with singing all the more. “Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous! For praise...
Marge had the heart of a child. She may have been forty years old, but she loved friendships with six- to ten-year-old kids. Marge had an intellectual...
When all the preparations for the consummation of the marriage contract were completed, it was customary for the Jewish bridegroom to go for his bride at night. He would march toward her village with his friends, in...
Five-year-old Matias and his parents, Patricia and Joel, live in the Dominican Republic. Before Matias was born, both Patrcia and Joel had settled careers...
A proud father of six, including a daughter living with significant disabilities, Ben knows the refining fire of personal suffering. As a pioneering...
In the old Jewish tradition, this is how a bride and groom became engaged: The young man traveled to the home of his loved one to ask for her hand in marriage. A dowry was agreed upon. It was the price paid by the groom to secure...