Author Archives: reeniefr

            We’ve had to endure many changes during this coronavirus epidemic, but the one that has bothered me most is social distancing. We are encouraged to keep six feet apart. Many of our activities have been cancelled or temporarily postponed. Hugs are definitely taboo. With our face masks on, the most of a facial expressionContinue reading “Get Ready To Shout”

            Have you ever been lost in the internet jungle? Here’s how it happens to me.             I’m intrigued by items in the news, so I head to youtube. Are there videos that address the new problem? Recent declaration or solution from some leader in this country or elsewhere in the world? A new cure?Continue reading “It’s a Jungle Out There!”

            People are fun to watch. We all have such different personalities and different ways we react to life. If you’ve been around a person who is generally always happy, you may have noticed how you feel happier just being with them. Conversely, someone who is often angry is usually the person we want toContinue reading “Anchor”

            Do you have a hungry heart?             We do have a problem: COVID-19. It has brought suffering to many and a difficult change in lifestyle to all of us. We try to cope. Kind and generous people are making masks and other supplies for health care workers or donating food to food banks soContinue reading “Hungry Heart”

            John Bevere’s book “Bait of satan” is based on his premise that satan’s greatest weapon is offense. We are offended and then sin, either by lashing out at the person who offended us, or seething within, but in either case, never really forgiving the person who offended us. Or we unconsciously offend another, andContinue reading “Shame”

                   What comprises a life? We may be doing our best to follow God, yet feel we are doing no great thing. What value is our life in the overall scheme of things? When we slip out of this life to the next, who notices? Who cares? Life just goes on.             One lifeContinue reading “Reaching for Joy”

            Before our shelter-in-place because of the coronavirus pandemic, I worked in a children’s ministry with 2 to 4-year-olds. New playground equipment had recently been purchased which included two sliding boards, one small and one large. One morning, with extra volunteers on hand, I took my 2 to 4-year-olds out to play. They had aContinue reading “The Sliding Board”

            Helen Keller once said, “Use your eyes as if tomorrow you will be struck blind.”[1]             Sight is something we take for granted. We need to see in order to take care of ourselves and others. With our eyes, we are able to read and expand our horizons, cook, clean, and create. We seeContinue reading “Perfect Sight”

            At the ending of the movie “Schindler’s List”, Oscar Schindler collapses in tears. His work is over. 1,000 Jews have been saved from Hitler’s death camps. He spent all his money buying favors from the German government in order to obtain as many Jews as he could for his factory, Jews that were notContinue reading “Just One More”

            As I write this, we are in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. How are you coping with the shelter-in-place and social distancing orders?             Some are super-organized. The current change of events hasn’t stopped their busy lifestyle, or taken the smile off their face. I admire them. Me, I was at a lossContinue reading “Puttering, Pondering, and Praying”