Blog

The Photograph

Our father had passed. We were left to go through treasures. It was a house filled with memories, where together, our parents had raised four children, celebrated marriages, and welcomed ten grandchildren.

A Bunny In Our Sunroom

There was a bunny in our sunroom. It was a tiny, baby bunny wedged protectively between a potted Christmas cactus and a decorative statue of a boy holding, of all things, a bunny. I smiled thinking my husband had transferred a realistic figurine from my late mother’s to its forever home in the sunroom.

The Charm Bracelet

As a young girl in South Carolina, I remember sitting on a pew with my family. We worshipped together in Bethel United Methodist Church in Spartanburg. Often, I was beside my mother admiring her charm bracelet. From momentous occasions, to trips and adventures, each three- dimensional figurine was a gift from my father and represented something special in their shared lifetime together.

Words, often spoken from the pulpit about life being hard, still echo through my mind. As that young girl, I never imagined the hard, difficult times. Those were not represented on the charm bracelet of a life, or were they? My prevailing thought was, we are Christians, and our lives are good.

Years later, I am reminded of that innocent, yet naïve, thought and our two children, now adults, asking about my own charm bracelet of memories. Life is good, yet even though we are Christians, it can also be hard and filled with unexpected challenges and difficulties.

Just as Psalm 126: 3 states in the NIV, “The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy,” regardless of what comes our way, or how we choose to respond, His prevailing love and grace dwells within us through the Holy Spirit. We can choose joy, and others will want to know Him through us.