Henry’s Breath
Henry just couldn’t get better. He had asthma and had trouble breathing even on a good day. On the days when he got sick with the coughs and colds of ...
28
Aug
28
Aug
Sing With Your Mind
I love to sing. But often, if I know the hymn, I’ll sing by rote. I'll just put myself on automatic and let the music carry me. Sometimes, I'll get ...
26
Aug
Rise and Shine!
The first days of school can seem really early. After getting to sleep in all summer, getting dressed and out the door in time for school is hard! This is ...
26
Aug
Pruning
The other night I was in bed and trying hard – very hard – not to think how painful my hip was. Pain can be so demoralizing; it can make ...
24
Aug
Egalitarianism
Back in the 1980s, Ken and I visited what was then, the Soviet Union, including other communist countries in Eastern Europe. Everywhere we went, communist officials tried to tell us ...
24
Aug
First School Assignment
Teachers sometimes have favorite homework assignments. One of the first assignments teachers love to give is to ask their students to write about what each one did during the summer. ...
21
Aug
New Crayons
Do you have brand new crayons just waiting for school to start? Well, if you want to make sure they will work for your homework and art assignments, pull them ...
21
Aug
New Effort to Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide
This past July, the California state assembly struck down AB 128, a bill that would have allowed doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients. ...
20
Aug
Reflections from a Vocational Intern
by Danielle Ledoux Last summer, I arrived at Joni and Friends as a vocational intern with one goal in mind: receive college credit for a two-week writing internship with Joni ...
20
Aug
Dig Out Your Pond
Every summer, the spring rains filled the pond on our Maryland farm with a lot of mud, and it needed to be cleaned out. The neat thing is, more earth ...