I was given the opportunity to have an hour completely to myself. I ambled through Barnes and Noble, leisurely, for the first time in years. I couldn’t find my old familiar favorite sections of books. The covers staring at me were all different, the section titles located in spots that …
“Didn’t you plan to be an artist at one time, Professor?” Carver smiled. “I am an artist… I make beauty instead of recording it. There is beauty in well-tilled fields, in healthy and happy people, beauty to living in harmony with others. With God helping me, I have tried to …
Right now, my oldest child is sleeping next to me, so I’ll try to type quietly. There. Is that better? Imagine me whispering this to you, while snuggled up under an electric blanket. Three months ago, a little boy sobbed as we held him for the first time. He came …
“I’m just not enough. I’m failing him.” My words have echoed through our narrow galley kitchen more than once in the last couple months. Being kind, patient, and forbearing, in general has been difficult. Love bears all things. When an animal is wounded, it strikes even the hands that want …
