Have you heard that as a cheer? We hear it when something “good” happens. We hear it less often when nothing good happens, and even less often when BAD things happen. But he is still good. I heard good news last week. In fact, the news was “good” to a whole region of people. Western…
Tag: Gratefulness
Thankful [Memory Lane]
Each Thursday in August we’ll be taking a trip down Memory Lane! I will be posting some of my favorite stories ever published here, part of celebrating ten years of blogging—August 2003 to August 2013. Some posts are taken from books, and others (like today’s) have only been published online thus far. You’ll read stories…
Jen
Yesterday was not a great day. There was not any one particular reason for it being “not great”; or maybe there are too many to bother with detailed listing. After all the children were in their beds, I grabbed a book and collapsed in my own bed, allowing the story to distract my mind and…
Thankful
There are days that it’s incredibly hard to see the good side. Where you’re so completely overwhelmed by the crushing weight of sadness, or failure, or just plain pain that you can’t see a way out of and seems it will never end. For whatever reason, we’ve had more than our share of those around…