I’m wrapping up my series on the Absolute Best Bucket List with three final items. No matter how old you are, or what resources you have (or don’t have) to pursue your version of happiness, completing the items I’ve identified can be done at any age and at no cost. As […]
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What’s next on my Bucket List? Last week, I identified the number one item on what I’m calling the “Absolute Best Bucket List”: Know your destiny. When you know that your ultimate destiny after this life is heaven because of your faith in Jesus Christ, what else could be important to […]
What’s Next on the Absolute Best Bucket List?

Making a “Bucket List” became popular a few years ago following the release of the Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie by that name. I’m sure the desire to accomplish certain things or see exotic places before you die–or before you “kick the bucket”–is a part of human nature. It could be called “Things […]
The Absolute Best Bucket List

She turned 101 today. My amazing aunt, Irene Gray McGee, celebrates her birthday today, surrounded by family and friends who love her. She is doing amazingly well for her age. She’s the third person in my family to live more than 100 years. Her sister–my mother–died shortly before her 101st […]
Age to Age

Last year, my husband and I were blessed to travel to Africa, where we worked for a week with African Vision of Hope, a wonderful ministry bringing hope and God’s love to help lift children in Zambia out of extreme poverty. As I worked with grade school children one day in […]
Simple Things
I write fiction because it reflects life. Jesus told parables. He knew that fictional stories can sneak up on the hearers (or readers) and touch their emotions. Two thousand years later, His fictional stories (especially the Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, and the Sower and the Seed) continue to impact […]
Stories are life
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