Another New Year In God’s Time Happy New Year! Once again, due to the season, we become (somewhat painfully, perhaps) aware of the passage of time. This is a purely human experience. God doesn’t operate within time constraints; He is eternal–no beginning or end. In fact, He is the One who created time for human beings. Time is a gift to us from Abba Father. Actually, in our modern world, people have become rather obsessed with time. Being myself,... Read more
My PostChristmas Meditation Never Enough Time Gift shopping–check Packed and mailed gifts to those who live far away–check Elementary Christmas program–check High school Christmas program–check Exams, administered, graded, posted (except for research papers to be graded over the holidays)–check Grocery shopping–check Last minute gift shopping (took my very life into my hands)–check Somehow located a last hour pizza–check Wrapped those gifts–check Christmas Eve church–check Cooked special holiday breakfast–check Gifts unwrapped–check Clean-up–check Doesn’t the Bible call Jesus the Prince of Peace?... Read more
Darkness to Light When it comes to Christmas, I’m sure every single facet has been explored over and over, dissected, examined, and studied … but the Word is alive, and it can speak to one in different ways at different times. For me this year, the focus was light. The winter solstice has just passed: December 21–the darkest day of the year. That means that even now, the days are growing lighter. The process is slow, perhaps undetectable on... Read more
The Creator vs. the created [Jesus or AI] Early in the school year I was required to attend a three hour lecture about AI and the classroom student. It is a new inconvenience that we who teach writing are attempting to deal with. About the time there is a program that will detect the use of AI, someone makes AI more undetectable. In other words, when one group invents a better mousetrap, AI becomes a better mouse. Predictive... Read more
Living As An Introvert in a Big, Loud World According to the Meyers-Briggs Personality Inventory, I am an extreme introvert. This did not come as a surprise to me. I have always been what one might call shy. At the age of 68, I am still learning to live as an introvert in a big, loud world. Living as an Introvert The first indications of my introvert status came when I was a child. I... Read more
A Thanksgiving Memory from Grandma Memory Lane: When I was a child, we always had cats. They all lived outdoors, and some of them were pretty rough. My grandmother always fussed at them and called them some rather *inappropriate* names. As for the cats, they adored her! Then would come Thanksgiving, and Grandma would take the turkey giblets (which we wouldn’t touch with a 10′ pole), and season and cook them up for the cat! Her answer to the... Read more
It’s Thanksgiving–and I Don’t Cook! Here Are Some Fast and Easy Thanksgiving Sides for the Non-Cook So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). Some Thanksgiving dinners turn into real family affairs, and all adults are expected to participate in the preparation. That’s good and fair, I suppose, but the non-cook who volunteers the paper products or a gallon of tea can face more... Read more
The Benefit of Just One Night Away I’m not sure what made me remember this. Maybe because I have been dealing with work-related stress lately, but I remembered a time when I just needed one night away. This happened a lot of years ago. My children were two and four years old, and I was a single parent. Perhaps some of you can identify with the fact that I cried every day. I often felt like a total failure... Read more
What’s Wrong With My Tunnel Vision? tunnel vision: noun constriction of the visual field resulting in loss of peripheral vision extreme narrowness of viewpoint : narrow-mindedness single-minded concentration on one objective Sometimes tunnel vision is a bad thing, like in definitions 1 and 2 above. This week, I have the definition 3 type of tunnel vision. It is performance week at school, and I am the drama teacher. To complicate matters, I suggested a mystery dinner theater this semester, which... Read more
A Child, A Daisy, and the Birth of Political Mud-Slinging It seems there has always been negativity attached to American Presidential elections. People disagree, sometimes vehemently, with the other party’s candidate. Maybe an attack on one’s opponent is considered “good politics.” To me, “good politics” is an oxymoron, and political ads are definitely the worst of the worst part of contemporary election tactics. Where did it all come from, I wonder. I remember a child, a daisy, and the subtle... Read more
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