I had coffee with a friend the morning after Christmas. “It just didn’t feel like Christmas this year,” she said. Many of her family members had been sick, and she was exhausted from working her new job and trying to take care of everyone. On my drive home, I started thinking, “What does Christmas feel…
No summer of my childhood would have been complete without Vacation Bible School. Wafer cookies wrapped in a napkin, styrofoam cups of Kool-Aid, crafts in the church basement, and memory work competitions that drove me to spend every afternoon of the week cramming Bible verses into my brain so I could win a trophy and…
My grandparents lived in a house with no central air conditioning. As spoiled as I am today, I probably wouldn’t last one summer afternoon inside their house. Of course, we didn’t stay inside the house on hot summer days. The house sat in a flat little clearing that was surrounded with trees–God’s natural air conditioning!…