The week after Thanksgiving Pastor Randy preached about Zechariah and Elizabeth. It was a birth announcement brought by an angel to a...

Later today Kyle and I will pack our bags and make our escape. I’ve been giddy all week with anticipation. It’s become our December...

Our Christmas card photo will be perfect this year. And it’s not only the genius of my photographer daughter-in-law, although this...

(Photo credit to Kiana Anderson – kianagrantphotography.com) Half Dome was their dream, but I was the one to win the lottery. The first...

The sermon on Sunday was just for Jimmy. And of course, for me, too. After all, it was Randy A’s message, and of all the pastors he’s the...

I’m different. Not different like odd, which may be true, but it’s not what I’m meaning today. I’m different like changed. In a different...

It was Tanner who quoted the verse in his devotional. The boy towers over the rest of us, eliciting stares and finger-pointing everywhere...

(Photo credit to Karen McDermott) When Nils was a little guy he spent hours every summer at the ball field, watching his brothers play....

Jimmy got to practice being a parent this week. For two days he carried around the fake baby from health class. It’s a...

I’ve been thinking about this more often than not these past couple of weeks. Ever since it came up in the teaching videos we’ve been...

Jimmy was working on a history assignment not long ago, answering a question about authority. Which is more effective, fear or love? They...

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We’re celebrating a birthday today. Nils is eighteen, and yes, this is the official age of adulthood in 47 states, including ours. We...

“Jimmy Anderson scored the winning goal in last night’s game!!!” Jimmy came into my room first thing this morning suggesting I start...

I was backing down my driveway this morning when I caught sight of the flowers on my porch. Rats. They needed water, but would have to...

“Mom, I’m wrecked” – is what Jimmy said as he limped his way up the stairs Friday morning. He’s always the first one up, an early riser...

I wasn’t so sure about the cabin at first. Seven years ago when all the Andersons decided to rent the little shack on Spectacle Lake, I...

I was walking with my friend earlier this week. Michelle is my BFF from college days, my everything buddy for many years. Bridesmaids in...

Somewhere on a mountain near Colorado Springs a boy becomes a man today. Of course it’s been happening gradually for a good long time. In...

It is right for me to feel this way about you, since I have you in my heart… (Philippians 1:7) My sweet sister and her family of five are...