chicken pox update Posted on July 24, 2007 By pamela Everyday I look at our children… the ones who have the chicken pox and the two who haven’t yet contracted them. It’s gotten to the point that Andrew walks in and I smile at him and he sort of instinctively reads the smile as: okay, lift your chin, show me your neck; extend your arms, show me some spots… lift up your shirt, show me your tummy. Nothing. Yet. Here’s what dolly thought of her chicken pox. She drew this picture of herself… yes, there were poxes on poxes ~wink~ all over. The one on the neck was particularly bothersome to her. Potpourri
Two Miraculous Births Posted on January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 [cp_quote style=”quote_left_dark”]Two births — the birth of a mother, the birth of a child.[/cp_quote]Every time I assist a birth I watch and watch and watch for not one, but two miraculous births — first the birth of a mother, that powerful time of dying to herself with a burst of… Read More
The Love Dare Journal — Day 6 Posted on April 21, 2009 Love is not Irritable. This chapter begins with a verse from Proverbs 16.32 And then continues, “Love is hard to offend and quick to forgive.” To be irritable means ‘to be near the point of a knife.’ Not far from being poked. People who are irritable are locked, loaded, and… Read More
Today’s slice… such things as I have Posted on January 14, 2008 Catching up… I was thinking of contrasts today. Chilly here and 90 in Africa. Raining here but snowing up the street. Contrasts. But weather related contrasts weren’t the only ones I was thinking of. I smile now — because the day’s over and everything got done that needed to get… Read More
Aww – that is a very sweet picture. And she even has a smile on her face too. I will pray for Amelia to heal quickly. Having chicken pox is no fun! Oh, I will pray for your whole family too! Christian Faith