I once ran a half-marathon and managed pretty well until mile 10 when the jarring pain caused me to pray for the rapture…..NOW! I knew I had to finish even through the pain, so I kept thinking about the ice-pack and ibuprofen waiting at the end. Sometimes you just have to take a long look…
Month: January 2014
A Joyful Noise…Post-it Note #45
Sometimes when people meet my daughter, Cadence, they say something like, “God knew you were special giving you a child like her.” Cadence is eleven, profoundly Autistic, essentially non-verbal, and labeled with Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation). I smile because they mean well, but I know better. I’m as ordinary as can be. Prone to come…
A Little Place I Know…Post-it Note #44
Sometimes we only know the significance of a moment as we look at it in hindsight. After it’s a memory. But there are times when you are in a moment and you KNOW that you are a part of something amazing. God is present in the here and now and He has showered enough grace…
The Church Police…Post-it Note #43
I’ve been seeing a lot of fussing and fighting between my kids lately. It’s sort of making me crazy. Definitely challenging my New Year’s resolution to not become so “unglued”. (See Post-it Note #40 to see all the craziness of that resolution!) But in the midst of a fire storm of children yelling at each…
At the End of Your Rope. Desperate…Post-it Note #42
I have been following a friend’s posts on FB lately. She has 2 different friends whose husbands have had major complications from the flu. This week they both passed away. From the flu! It’s unbelievable. I don’t know these families or what they think of God, but I wondered as I was praying for them…
The Yellow Brick Road…Post-it Note #41
Do you remember The Wizard of Oz? I remember being scared out of my mind of the flying monkeys! I still have trouble watching that movie. But I loved all the other parts. Especially the Munchkins and all their voices saying, “follow the yellow brick road”. We all wish we could follow a yellow brick…
Beginning again. And again. And again…Post-it Note #40
We are one week in to the new year. How’s those resolutions coming along? I saw a cartoon the other day where a dog asks another dog, “What exactly is a new years resolution?” The other dog says, “It’s just a to-do list for the first week of January.” A friend on FB said last…
Collard greens, Black eyed peas and a clean slate…Post-it Note #39
In the Deep South we have a tradition on New Year’s Day. For lunch or dinner it is customary to eat black-eyed peas and collard greens. My grandmother said that the black-eyed peas represented coins and the collard greens represented money, and she cooked them every January 1st. I always told her to eat some…
Grace in the Real World - by Connie Post 