Ten years ago I was posting about loneliness at holiday season and organizing “Neighbors’ Cookie Swap event in Lynn Haven. It seems to be a perpetual and pervasive experience in our culture today. A mere five years later I was widowed. The next year our daughter...
A young woman I know wrote this poem. It was so poignant. I felt that pain in my 20s and 30s.I felt this great loneliness for many years then realized God was sending several people for whom I WAS to be that person. Problem was I didn’t WANT to be that person for...
A much younger friend wrote this about 6-7 years ago ….I ached to think of her loneliness. I had felt this loneliness for many years when i was a young adult. Then, in my early middle years, I realized God was sending several people for whom I was to BE...
Psalm 68 “May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him. 2 May you blow them away like smoke— as wax melts before the fire, may the wicked perish before God. 3 But may the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy...
“Bummer lambs”……..A lot of people feel that way in life and need the tender one-on-one care of The Good Shepherd to experience the feeling of being truly loved! I’ve often felt that God creates some of us with a profound depth of loneliness in our...
A Facebook poster attributed this story to Sheila Walsh having written about a peculiar sad occurrence in some sheepfolds. There have also been YouTube accounts of this happening with lambs. As reported, every once in a while, an ewe will give birth to a lamb and...