Mary Hamilton
Though Mom's been gone for several years, I miss her more now than ever. Maybe because I'm the age she was when I was a young adult pursuing my dreams without much thought for anyone else. So many times, I stop and think of what she was going through at my current age.
“I love to wait,” said no one, ever. Most of us associate waiting with uselessness—waiting in traffic, waiting in the doctor’s office, waiting in the grocery line to check out, waiting for a repairman, waiting for a teenage son or daughter to come home, waiting for your flight to board and take off. Recently, …
Happy Resurrection Day! He is risen. He is risen indeed!
What was it like the day God died? When they took him down from the cross, wrapped those linens around his body and laid him in a borrowed tomb? When they rolled the stone across the opening, sealing inside the dead body of the son of the living God, the Messiah? I’m reminded of September …
I’ve heard death comes in threes. I suspect that’s not always true but since January, we’ve experienced the death of my 93-year-old mother and both of my in-laws who were in their 80’s. My mother was somewhat expected, since she’d been declining over the fall and early winter. But the deaths of my in-laws, two …
It’s a typical country church with white siding and a tall steeple topped with a cross that shines in the night. The church sits atop a hill, surrounded by dairy farms and corn fields and an apple orchard. Gravestones dot the cemetery on one side of the old church. On the other side is a …
