Today I was reminded how inspired and full of God’s love I feel when I sift through old boxes of Anita’s papers. For my accountant today I dug into a box of old bill stubs, or so I thought. Half way down I realized it was another box of Anita’s to-do lists, brainstorms and inspirational [...]
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I didn’t got so far as to tell my kids that yesterday was the worst of my eight Father’s Days, but it was. I honestly can’t think of previously bad Father’s Day, not even the one five years ago when we spent the day driving from Chicago to Atlanta in a U-Haul truck and Anita [...] I found this in the back of our coat closet. It is a collage of magazine images and words (heavy on words – this is Anita we are talking about) that Anita made around January 2007. The directions were to cerate a college filled with images and phrases of things that are important to you [...] by Ben Schick (3rd grade) “It’s a girl!” yelled my uncle from downstairs. Man, “I wanted a brother!” I said. Before I got to school my dad called, “I’m sending pictures of her,” he said. After that, I showed Mrs. Fenstermaker, my 1st grade teacher, the pictures. On the bus ride home I couldn’t wait until I [...] In today’s devotional of My Utmost for His Highestby Oswald Chambers, he uses the phrase “spiritually distracted”. I think that accurately describes how I often feel. It’s not hard to be distracted spiritually. This world is full of things to take one’s mind off of God. On Saturday, I got cable. We had shut it off [...] No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne. – Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest As one of my daily devotionals, this sentence spoke to me. My constant effort is to put God first, both in my thoughts and when considering my actions. But [...] |
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