by Susan Gregory | Dec 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Who is a mother? The woman who endures the pangs of childbirth? The woman who opens her heart and home to a child not of her body? What of the women who yearn to nurture a child but are unable to do so? The Bible records no children of Deborah, the fourth and only...
by Susan Gregory | Dec 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Matthew 12:46 makes me grin. Jesus was a grown man and Mary still wanted to mother him. Mary probably had heard reports of her son’s actions and words. The scripture doesn’t tell us their private conversation but I think it might have gone something like this. “Son,...
by Susan Gregory | Nov 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Armed guards within the Tower of London protect the crown jewels of England. Bullet-resistant encasements secure the documents of our country. Yet, the most precious belongings of the Israelites were stored in a chest built from simple acacia wood. Ahhh…the acacia....
by Susan Gregory | Oct 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Mommy, up.” My daughter didn’t like to walk. Not when she was three years old or five or seven. (We’ll stop at seven because true confessions should only reveal so much.) She could walk – had been doing so since she was 10 months old. Maybe she thought walking was...
by Susan Gregory | Oct 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The sailor outfit for Tyler’s six month old photo was a perfect fit – on Monday. By Saturday, the day of the photo appointment, the buttons threatened to pop off his shirt and the pants almost squeezed him in half. The proverb from the ‘Book of Mom’ was...
