My brother and sister-in-law, Tim and Linda, played this for us when we had breakfast at their house yesterday.  It just blew me away and I had a good cry.  God uses the most unlikely people, and the most unlikely circumstances, to make a huge statement about His love.  I love my great God.

My brother Dan recently created a nice website for relatives in England. My sister-in-law, Linda, is from Devon, and her parents have a centuries-old farm called “Snape” on which they recently built a cabin that they rent out to vacationers. The cabin is called “Lane’s End.” Click here to see the online [...]

We spent this weekend in Villa Grove with family. We were anxious to see how my sister-in-law, Linda, was doing, and also how my mother was doing. On our way there Friday night, a deer jumped out from the side of the road and hit our van. Fortunately none of us was hurt, although there’s [...]

Yesterday was an incredibly busy day, as Michele helped to manage a garage sale at our house while I attended commencement as part of Taylor’s faculty in the a.m. and did some work in the garden in the p.m. The garage sale proceeds all go to MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers). Michele is on the leadership [...]

Well, our family has grown by four. I discovered that a feral cat had a litter of six kittens in our garden shed. As of this afternoon she was nowhere to be seen and two of the kittens had disappeared, so we made the difficult decision to take the remaining four inside and try to [...]

Word from my mother this a.m. is good in that my sister-in-law, Linda, is doing a bit better than last night, even though she is still in tremendous pain. She has a very low blood count and has had four units of blood. I’m feeling better than yesterday, when I basically slept most of the [...]

Today is a sad and troubling day because Michele and I heard from my mom that my sister-in-law, Linda, is very sick again and hospitalized for intense pain in her stomach region. She spent two weeks in hospital about four months ago for similar pain and had an operation to clear up intestinal adhesions. Now [...]