Mountains (Lacey's Song for Her Neighbors)
9-year-old Lacey wrote this song for her neighbors after one of their teen boys suddenly collapsed with unforseen critical heart issues.
9-year-old Lacey wrote this song for her neighbors after one of their teen boys suddenly collapsed with unforseen critical heart issues.
Sharing a song my 9-year-old granddaughter wrote about giving our worries to God.
Last week I was a senior citizen with Parkinson’s Disease, but active. My calendar shows that I was busy, busy! This week I am a high risk, self-quarantined senior citizen.
In a season of illness and struggle, the eagle came to remind us of a strength that is not our own. A strength from the everlasting God of Isaiah, the Creator who never grows weary.
Moments with Maggie is a biographical poetic-prose collection of coming-of-age anecdotes that span the 20th century following Maggie as a child experiencing immigration to becoming the matriarch of five generations.
“Maggie and the Big Move” tells of a young girl’s grand journey across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the promising country of America.
I'd like to share the prayer I wrote for the annual prayer service of the CRC churches in Hull, IA.
Remembering CRC Christmas programs of the 1950's.
He could no longer even stand, so he simply laid himself down on the ground. “Did anyone do anything?” his mom asked. “Yes,” he said quietly. “My friends ran over and laid on the ground right next to me.”
I was not born disabled, nor have I been disfigured in any way. But the insidious invasion of my Parkinson’s Disease continues to dismantle one aspect or another of my otherwise ordinary daily life.