Push Through the Pain

“So, did you faint the first time you saw a body cut into?” I asked my surgeon friend. “Almost”, he replied. “The nurses gave me a stool to sit on until I could pull myself together.  It was a hysterectomy, and I was in pre-med.” “Now I can cut without a problem...

Hitting the Brick Wall

Are there days when you just need to cry.  Nothing is wrong, nothing out of the ordinary, but the need to cry is there.  It is like hitting a brick wall that you cannot get past! I do not fully understand why this happens.  Perhaps it is hormones, or melancholy, or...

Copper Rose

Tink, tink, tink tink, Boom, Boom! A rhythmic percussion of hammer to copper is heard over sounds of laughter and conversations. Metal heated then pounded into a creation of purpose.  The instructor with a long white beard and cowboy hat is holding with tongs the...

How to Lean Correctly

Writing is so very challenging at times.  This week I’m feeling great pressure to get my five-minute talk ready for the Proverbs 31 conference. Trying to find one topic that I can teach with meaning, that will bless the listener, whether they like my style or not. So...

Taking a Risk

Where does the apple fall? Not too far from the tree. And where do the flowers grow? In the soil, in which they were planted. Sometimes life seems like it will be what it will be.  What was before is now, again. We cook and clean, do the same things, go to the same...

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