I sat in my favorite seaside restaurant enjoying a platter of fried catfish and hush puppies. The food was delicious but I had to hold back the tears as my husband and I adjusted to a “table for two” instead of a “table for three”, now that our son was away in college. I thought I would burst out crying when the hostess asked me, “How many for dinner?” I wanted to stop and tell her all about my wonderful son who used to come with us. I can still feel my husband rolling his eyes behind me. As I enjoyed the […]
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I’ve been shopping for a new dining room table to replace the old table that’s been a steady fixture in our home for the last 20 years. Shopping for furniture is stressful enough by itself, but I was not prepared for the emotional weight of it as well. I looked at my old table with its scratches and worn chairs. It needed to be replaced with something new and refreshing, but each time I tried to pick out a new table I hesitated with just a bit of melancholy. I’ve served many meals around that table. There have been Thanksgiving celebrations, birthday parties, moments of joy […]
Category:Life, Heart, Soul
A wealthy Christian man who lost everything in a financial downturn was asked if he ever regretted all he had given to the Lord’s work. He replied, “What I gave, I still have. What I kept, I lost.” As an American, we like to have our opinions. We have opinions on everything from how to handle Ebola and gun violence, to how we should be spending our taxes and whether or not our favorite sports team played well. We love our free speech and our beliefs. Most of America was formed out of the quest for these two freedoms. We cannot lose them, for there is no where else to […]
Category:Life, Heart, Soul
I had been helping my son John study for his algebra final exam all afternoon. He had been doing fairly good, but after finishing that last grueling practice problem, he’d had enough. He got up from his chair and looked at the answer on his paper and exclaimed, “Algebra is useless. That’s nothing more than a mark on a piece of paper!” I didn’t think of it that way at all, but I began to realize how we all see things from different views. To him, adding numbers to some obscure formula on a piece of paper had no more use than just making […]
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About the Author
Sue McCusker is a writer, Bible teacher, and web developer who loves to share the stories of life, hope, and faith she sees around her every day. She has written for Guideposts and Angels on Earth magazines, and teaches the story of God in women's Bible study.
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