Success

I DID IT!!  Ok, truth be told, Jesus did it – all of it – but He did let me participate.  It’s rather like the memories I have of running electric with my dad in my young apprentice years.  He made the plans, set the studs, marked the measurements, drilled the holes, and then said …

Engage!

It was a few months before my graduation, a little over a year ago now.  I had just finished another one of those Mother-Daughter conversations that daughters can recite with astounding accuracy  – it’s practically scripted.  Truth be told, it has been for generations, but some mothers & daughters get an early escape from it.  …

Doug – God’s 2×4

It was more than 30 years ago, but I still remember it vividly.  With the stroke of a neuron, I’m transported back to my youth group, and my seat on a log in front of the firepit, grousing to a friend about how the chaperone’s children are hogging the horses (all three of them).   It …

2013 April: In a Year

Ahhh…graduation season…  several of my friends have done the tassel flip & cap toss in recent weeks, as I did about this time last year.  What a year it has been! There was the discussion with my mom a few months prior that led to the ring I’ve worn for just over a year now.  …

Deaf Kids Connect

Our name has changed, but the need remains the same. Jesus loves me, this I knowfor the Bible tells me so.Little ones to Him belong –they are weak, but He is strong. Anna Bartlett Warner (1827–1915) Generations of mothers, fathers, babysitters and other caretakers have sung or hummed this song while rocking a small child. Many …