What’s faith without action? Why be pro-life if you think only politicians can fight abortion? Why care about an unborn baby if the only thing you can tell its scared, pregnant mom is to keep her legs closed and take responsibility for herself? If we don’t care about the moms, how can we truly say […]
Category Archives: teaching
Mr. Ratburn is Welcome in My Home: So Are You
Today, I saw that Arthur’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, is gay! In fact, he’s marrying a another male-whatever-he-is. Should I boycott and block all PBS shows? You know I love Jesus and I want to be a good Christian! Seems like when Jesus people can’t fathom someone or something in our country, we must immediately purge […]
Losing Those We Love
Today marks three days of a dark cloud of grief sitting on me. It’s not something to be shaken off, it can only be felt to it’s entirety until the light takes over again. I know the light will take over again. I have faith that God is walking this road with me. He knows […]
We Have To Say Something
Two summers ago, after a racist comment was made by our president, a pastor declared that we as Christians should always denounce racism, stand up and fight against it, and seek unity. I sat in a pew closer to the back, but that message was for me. It was for all of us sitting in […]
When You Can’t Go Back Home
It hurt to leave, I’ll admit, I cried. I couldn’t look back, because if I did, the adrenaline pushing me forward would have dissipated, and my family was counting on me. But now the home that we bought as a family of three and grew to a family of seven…a home in which three of […]
When Politics Become Religion
I grew up believing that Christians were Republicans and non-Christians were Democrat and only Heathens didn’t vote. No one told me this, I just figured it out by my environment. And needless to say, we were Republicans! One of my earliest memories is of a night my parents came home from a Bush/Quayle fundraiser and […]
My Fellow White Savior: Let’s Get Uncomfortable!
I recently watched this clip, shared by a friend who, as a person of color, felt a certain frustration about being subjected to “white savior” films as a high school student. Click on the words white savior to see this clip of how Hollywood transforms the real narratives (of struggle) for minorities to be more […]
Sandra Day O’Connor
This month is Women’s History Month! Today, my oldest daughter and I read Remarkable People: Sandra Day O’Connor by Jennifer Howse (Weigl Publishers Inc.) I had hoped it would spark some kind of interest in biographies, discussion about obstacles women have faced, and some inspiration, but truth be told, my daughter was mostly unmoved. This […]
It’s just what I needed to tell myself!
Eighteen years ago I wrote myself a poem that I needed to remind myself of tonight! Why tonight? Because the big dream just ahead requires a bigger faith than normal. I found this little scrap in an old hatbox filled with other memories. It may not happen when you thought it should. It may not […]
Memories of Miss Gray
Tonight we visited friends that live in the same town as my first teaching assignment, Pottsboro, Texas. Driving by the intermediate school where I taught my first three years coupled with going through pictures and notes from that time (this past week while packing up) really sent me into a deep nostalgic mindset. My friend […]
