Month: April 2014

Life took an abrupt turn for my neighbor that spring day. Their long laid plans to attend a concert that evening went out the window. Their way of life as happily married couple forever changed with one phone announcing the arrival of their first child, a boy. They didn’t call the doctor. No, an adoption…

Lost in the spring time We welcomed the visiting grandchildren with a backyard seeded with plastic Easter eggs. No candy, but a promise that the one who gathered the most would get to be first in choosing which chocolate Easter bunny they would receive. Eggs just laying in the yard sounds easy, but Grandpa had…

Everything costs money including that summer mission outreach trip that my daughter anticipated taking with her son. But, it was money not planned in the household budget. “I think we are supposed to go but I am not sure about how to pay for it,” she told me a couple months ago. Everything costs money,…