“Tell them hello for me” was one of Mom’s signature sayings. Depending on who “them” referred to, she might also tack on, “and that I love them.” I delivered her message…

I watched as the EMTs carried Mom, cradled in her bedsheet, to the waiting ambulance. Though it appeared one of my worst fears, a fall-induced broken hip…

It was difficult enough for me to watch Mom’s physical decline, but a year or so before she died, I started noticing changes in her mental capacity. Her inability to…

Here in NW Georgia, spring is baby bird season – and baby deer, squirrels, and chipmunks. Juvenile squirrels relentlessly try to figure out how to breach…

As I drove, hands clasping the steering wheel, praying we’d find Ray alive, it occurred to me that Chris’s question regarding someone accompanying me already provided a clue to what…

It took several months after my husband’s fatal heart attack before I was ready to hear the specifics of his final hours. But, when I was, one of his closest…

I pinched myself. Sue, pay attention; stay in the moment; live with expectancy. This is real. This is amazing. These God-created creatures are swimming…

God's creativity, His grace offered by His creation, overflowed with gifts from the ocean. Before the tides rolled in in the early mornings, some…

Flying high over this gentler swath of Alaska wilderness in our Beaver float plane, the beauty kept us wide-eyed and snapping pictures. A highlight…

Flying high over this gentler swath of Alaska wilderness in our Beaver float plane, the beauty kept us wide-eyed and snapping pictures. A highlight…

Living Nativity scenes, so popular during Advent, communicate worship to me. Often the face of the young girl acting as Mary oozes expectancy. She seems to know…

I understand release and embrace, but expectations and expectancy? How are they different? What was God saying? I went with it – whatever…

In this hurry up, fast-paced world, where we cling to expectations, we often miss out on the countless treasures surrounding us, designed…