Museum in Paris, France, May 2023 You belong on top! Don’t let people put you down. Strive, don't just survive! Written for RonovanWrites Weekly Hailu Poetry Prompt Challenge: Top and Down.
Strive! Don’t Just Survive!
Cultivating A Child-Like Faith: Sunday Devotion
Coastal Discovery Center, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2023 Psalm 131:1-3 Lord, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I don’t concern myself with matters too great or too awesome for me to grasp. Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself, like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother’s milk.... Continue Reading →
Speak Positivity into the World!
Give people much praise. Barbs fill social media. Say positive things. Written for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge: Barbs and Praise.
Answering the Callings on Our Lives: Sunday Devotion
Haggai 1:2-8 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’” Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?” Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your... Continue Reading →
Seeing Ourselves as Warriors: Wednesday Devotion
Judges 6: 12-16 When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But... Continue Reading →
Ode to the Graduate Student on Social Security: Wordle
Playing in the Park Diderot in Courbevoie, France, in May 2023 Many think that we are grumpy old people in need of assistance, Who should consider themselves fortunate to have lived so long. But we still have an inventory of gifts to share with the world. We aren’t sitting in fairgrounds prepared to sing our... Continue Reading →
Wisdom and Understanding Are Better than Wealth: Sunday Devotion
Psalm 49: 16-20 (NIV) Do not be overawed when others grow rich, when the splendor of their houses increases; for they will take nothing with them when they die, their splendor will not descend with them. Though while they live, they count themselves blessed—and people praise you when you prosper—they will join those who have gone before... Continue Reading →
The Product I Would Sell Is How to Think
Daily writing promptIf you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?View all responses Once, a student at a prestigious university in California asked me why he paid for college but also had to do the work assigned. I explained to him that the product I sold as a Sociology professor was... Continue Reading →
In Your Grandchildren’s Smiles, You Live On!
August 12 is a rough day for me, but it is better now than seventeen years ago when my youngest child, my Black Knight, died after a painful struggle that only he could describe after a heart transplant. He stopped taking his medication. His choice, but I still wish I could have been at home... Continue Reading →
I Won’t Compromise My Intellect: Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge
He wiped the dust from the stairs before we sat down. His disdain for me masqueraded as a concern. So when he uttered those four dreaded words, I knew I wouldn't like what I was about to learn. No matter the slant he tried to put on the words, I knew that my heart was... Continue Reading →
Help from Heaven 