Don’t run onto the highway! Don’t touch that stove. It is hot! Don’t drive if you’ve been drinking! Put that down right now! Haven’t we all yelled at someone, for…
Published March 8th, 2015 by Brenda Wood
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.” “Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.” “Vice does not lose its…
Published March 7th, 2015 by Brenda Wood
Did you get flowers and candy? Count yourself blessed. Poor Adam’s first Valentines Day didn’t go so well. Valentine, what can I say? It’s not your basic, average day. It’s…
Published March 6th, 2015 by Brenda Wood
“Again today, Ron and I experience grace, God’s riches at Christ’s expense, through what the world calls the trauma of cancer. Again today, we strive to conquer its wickedness. Laughter…
Published March 5th, 2015 by Brenda Wood
I wrote this when in the cancer ward on one of those many days Ron had to go there. The audience attends me; they focus on each line. I perform…
Published March 4th, 2015 by Brenda Wood
“Well, we’ve survived this long.” I said to my son. He corrected me. “No, Mom, we’ve thrived.” It’s been almost four years since our beloved Ron, our husband and father,…
Published March 3rd, 2015 by Brenda Wood
Habitage is a newly coined word meaning “habits that sabotage us.” Now I don’t wish to meddle but most of us have at least one bad habit. It is the…
Published March 2nd, 2015 by Brenda Wood
The Latin words for divine reading are Lectio Divina. Author Pat Bell recently explained this to me. The leader reads the scripture and listeners listen for a word/ phrase that…
Published March 1st, 2015 by Brenda Wood
Most of us do not listen well. We interrupt speakers with our comments, sometimes even talking over them. Why? Because we think we know how to fix their lives, even…
Published February 28th, 2015 by Brenda Wood
Are you familiar with any of these? They are but a miniscule part of the world’s 7000 rare diseases. Abdominal chemodectomas with cutaneous angiolipomas Abdominal cystic lymphangioma Aberrant subclavian artery…
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