Can I be honest? I’ve been pretty discouraged lately. Or, more specifically, discouraged with how technology has changed us. Yesterday, I was in a waiting room and it hit me like it does every time—we don’t talk to each other anymore. Twenty heads bent down looking at their screens. If conversation is initiated on a... Continue Reading →
Words don’t suffice. There aren’t enough that can express. Birdie and Bunny, let my heart talk to yours. You are so adored by your hard-working and fun-loving parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles: life will be a great adventure. Along the way, we’ll surround you and pray you'll be surrounded by God’s angels too. Your Nonny... Continue Reading →
May 14, 1985 Dad died in the hospital today. Why, why, why, why, why? Why wasn't I taken instead? Mom, Karen, and the boys could live fine without me. How will any of us survive without Dad? June 9, 2023 Dear Younger Me, These are such good questions. Thirty-eight trips around the sun later, and... Continue Reading →
They know all your secrets. They can name your old elementary and high school crushes, your most embarrassing moments, and your biggest regrets. They know the one you love and the ones that got away. They celebrate your greatest achievements and empathize with your wish-you-could-do-overs. You don’t have to be wordy in texts, phone calls,... Continue Reading →
After I repeated the expression, you told me it brought you to tears. “All of God’s grace in one tiny face.” We'd talked on the phone for an hour that afternoon—me swatting bees on the deck of our rental house in Indiana and you back home in Illinois in your comfortable recliner, looking at birds... Continue Reading →
I’ve kept the gift for over twenty-nine years. When I take off the top and inhale the scent, I’m right back in that significant time—the beginning years of marriage and living in our very own little home, expecting a baby. My sister-in-law, Jan, gave me the Elizabeth Arden body lotion for my birthday, two months... Continue Reading →
My husband was out of the country on a work trip. While caring for our two boys, I often counted the seconds until his return. The first days of his absence had been rough, but this one started and ended, almost, uneventfully. I fed our then four-year-old, Brett; nursed our then six-week-old, Collin; and somehow... Continue Reading →
I’d take physical exhaustion over mental exhaustion any day of the week. And that’s what social media produces in me—a mental and emotional burnout. So I took the plunge and removed myself. I decided over a year and a half ago, at the end of February and beginning of the Lenten season, to start a... Continue Reading →
1 Corinthians 13 : 2 (NLT) “If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.” Our family of seven, a trio of grown "kids" and... Continue Reading →
Debbie Prather | 742iloveyou 