by Ellie | Dec 8, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
GETTING SCAMMED and losing a hunk of cash is not the best way to celebrate Christmas. Not fun at all. Bare-bones account: The trickster—let’s call him Steve—said over the phone that he owed me $200 from some old account. He would put it back into my account—which he...
by Ellie | Nov 24, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
Yeah, that title sounds bizarre, but it’s the normal sort of stuff that flows from Eugene Peterson. My friend George Varghese sent me the book, and it has set my heart on fire. In his sermon on what the Messiah would look like, Peterson lines out the then-current...
by Ellie | Nov 4, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
We’re familiar with the phrase the least of these, as given by Jesus. Whatever we do for one of them, He says, we do for Him. But World columnist Andrée Seu Peterson turned that phrase on its head when she described her father-in-law as being “one of the most of...
by Ellie | Oct 18, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
ON TUESDAY MORNING, I WAS ASSAULTED BY THREE DIFFERENT READINGS. The first, while eating breakfast, was by Andrée Seu Peterson in World Magazine. The old age of my father-in-law doesn’t fit my schedule. I phoned my husband between the nurse and PT visits. My Husband:...
by Ellie | Sep 29, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
I do have friends who are NOT trees, and I measure them with hugs. I have a special tape, though, that I wrap around my TREE FRIENDS each fall. Please come meet my tape-measured friends. Miss Maple—a sweet old lady. Hemlock Holmes—a sturdy guy—there when you...
by Ellie | Sep 8, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
WHAT WILL JESUS LOOK LIKE WHEN WE GET TO SEE HIM FACE TO FACE? I read a neat story that illustrates this perfectly. William Montague Dyke was blinded in an accident when he was 10. Despite his disability, William graduated from university with high honors,...
