What Color is Your Fitness? Take the Quiz
What’s your fitness color? Really. Your fitness has a personality and a color. So says author Suzanne Brue, who wrote The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You’ll Never Quit. Take her quiz here. Find out your “fitness color.” See if you agree. Author Suzanne Brue, building on the […]
The baton between believe and act
Do I believe myself when I say, “I believe God put me up to this?”
The moment after the masterpiece
“The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.”Psalm 19:1 Temporarily. I mean how long does a sunrise last? I wandered down the driveway to collect the newspaper this morning, but on the way I knew something special was waiting. I could see the pinkish glow reflecting off asphalt and […]
Finding perfect pitch
Tuning pins, I think they call them. Those tiny knobs you twist to wind the strings and pull them taut. I was always fascinated by folks who did this, ear to the strings. They would pluck and turn, pluck and turn, listening for just the right pitch. Are there really people like this? Who have […]
Will there be turf or grass in heaven?
Now THAT’s the testimony of a kid who loves soccer! No question in her mind that the game awaits, just what the field conditions will be like. And that’s something to think about. Seems that “what awaits” has been a serving on my plate these last few weeks. A larger portion than usual. So, let’s […]
Reaching Beyond
“God’s love reaches beyond my mistakes, my fears and my sin” I like that image, created by Elizabeth Veldboom, author of the Upper Room meditation for today. A love that reaches beyond boundaries, even those that are indeterminate, whose margins are poorly defined, perhaps invisible to the naked eye. But all things are possible for […]
Supreme effort
Exertion focuses you. But not on the exertion. When we were much younger, my husband and I went on a bike touring trip to Vermont. It was the intermediate and advanced excursion. Five delightful days pedaling through rolling hills past pastoral scenes of fields and barns and livestock. Vermont ain’t flat, as the t-shirt says. […]
5 Things to Look for if You’re New on the Soccer Team
Just joined a new team or are considering one? How do you know whether it is a good fit? Here are 5 things to consider: other players, other parents, the coach, the team feel, your own kid. Other players … watch these at tryouts and practice: Does your kid fit in? Can she keep up with […]
Love: A communal project
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a model is worth a thousand pictures.” What an interesting image that presents for me, a writer, who seeks to paint pictures with her words and a scientist, who seeks to put everything together as a working model. The man who shared this with me, it […]
Notions over-flowing
They needed help with craft supplies for a summer camp at a local elementary school. Pipe cleaners, yarn, craft foam…and buttons. Buttons I’ve got, in all shapes and sizes. I pull out the button tin and begin to go through the contents. Many are still in their tiny envelopes, often nestled next to a bit […]