From the moment Robert found me, he was orchestrating a visit home. He gave a week’s notice to be routed “home” to Indianapolis by Friday. Apparently the dispatcher thought it would be fun to route Robert from Michigan through San Antonio TX in order to get to Indiana. A blizzard shut him down in Little…
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Chapter 3 of the Return of the Prodigal Foster Son Twenty five years ago I became Robert’s CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocate to be Robert’s voice in court. He was a ward of the state who had been all but abandoned by his biological family. That was for the best as the rights of…
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Chapter 2 of the Return of the Prodigal Foster Son 11 days and counting since reconnecting with my foster son who walked out into a fallen world 20 years ago when he was 21 years old. Not many people who loved on my foster son 25 years ago are even living today. My dad, grandparents,…
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This is Chapter 1 of the Return of the Prodigal Foster Son. My writer friend Cathee Poulsen inspired me with a New Year’s blog. Ephesians 3:20 gripped me “For to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to His power that is at work in us to Him…
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Last year I wrote on New Year’s Eve, my anticipation of what was to come for 2015. Today on New Year’s Day 2016, I take a look back as well as a look forward. I wrote in a journal last year “the rewards will come through obedience and waiting.” I got a real taste of how I…
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It was a cold, rainy, black Monday night. Not just any Monday, but the Monday after Christmas after you have thrown out the rest of the Christmas cookies because you looked at pictures of Christmas past and you wonder how you got so old and so fat. admitting I watch the 700 club So while making…
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Halinka calls me from Lebanon as she makes her way from Chicago to visit me in Indianapolis on her way to spend the winter in Florida. I usually get no notice when she is about to pass through. She objects to making a plan. At least it is the day after Christmas and I did…
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This is my third year spending Christmas Day Alone with the King. The day begins with a special breakfast, a roaring fire, traditional choral and symphony Christmas songs (this year an upgrade to Spotify,) and new this year a collection of Christmas books to delve into to see where they would take me. It was…
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Every day during the four weeks of Advent, I went to my mailbox in hopeful anticipation of a Christmas card from my third ex-husband, (the one I did not marry.) Last year he surprised me to my utter depths by sending me a Christmas card. He is not a card person, he is not a holiday…
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Ahh…New Year’s Day 2013. I have but one resolution. Dedicate this year to letting God lead. My dear friend and Pastor Gary Walker asked us to reflect on six points as we evaluated 2012 and how God has moved in our lives. A passage of scripture that has moved you in some way An answer…
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