I have a memory of standing next to my grandmother in church and hearing her sing. She didn’t have an especially pleasant voice, but I found comfort in the sound. (To this day, I am more apt to sing out loud in corporate worship if someone nearby is singing imperfect and loud.) There are several Read More
Category: Not My Words
Lyrics I like, tidbits from sermons, logophilia
Contemplating Love
I feel free to write again, prompted even. For about a year, all my writing has been ghostwriting, not personal. It has been very good though, and opened something back up. Here are some thoughts swirling in my head right now: In The God Shaped Brain, Timothy R. Jennings writes about research from Dr. Newberg, Read More
Killing me softly*
We had a water filter installed yesterday. During my year in Prague, we had to buy all of our water. So, I know better than to take drinkable water for granted. But, apparently I still did it. It just took several weeks of drinking chorine-flavored water and consuming our emergency water bottles to realize how Read More
There’s a hole in my bucket list, dear Liza
I never made a bucket list. I don’t know if I ever will, but it isn’t because I don’t want to be prepared to die. Last year I celebrated American citizenship with a woman from Iraq by buying her lunch. She turned her palms up to pray for our meal. Her prayer was simple, “God, Read More
Warrior TV series inspired by Bruce Lee
I found out about a TV series that has a story line inspired by Bruce Lee’s writings. There was an eerie feeling as we sat down to watch it. The first episode starts in a similar time period to Stone of Asylum. Next arrives a martial artist, fresh from China, to the docks of San Read More