Author: Kathy Sheldon Davis
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Scotch Tape and Proverbs 3:3-4
Have you ever felt punished because you are a quiet person? I have, though I understand why the teacher moved her rowdy, disruptive student next to me in second grade. He stirred up drama, and I had no interest in participating in his drama. I’m sure she hoped that being my seat mate would compel him to give…
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Who am I in Relationship to the Stars? – Psalm 8
Summer is my family’s camping season, and that means I’ll spend time out in the open looking at stars. It’s healthy for me somehow. It calms me to realize how small I am, though I wonder at my place in God’s grand scheme of things. I lose track of who I am so easily, especially when I forget to look…
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The Past – Let it Go
Moving from our family home should have been an ordeal, but it wasn’t. Though we loved our spot in the country where we raised our children, cared for foster children, welcomed strangers and extended family for Thanksgiving feasts, managed 4-H animals, shot our guns and bows, scratched in the garden and enjoyed the quiet (and howling coyotes) for 20 years, we…
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Can Poor and Rich be Best Friends?
I have a new friend, and she lives in a higher income bracket than I do. Will we be able to become close, lifelong friends? That’s kinda hard, you know. When we lived in Monroe, our well produced water that stained our fixtures orange. I could scrub them every day and never completely remove the stains, and over…
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The “Thank Dad Here” House
With our tummies full of chilled root beer and the window rolled down on hot summer evenings, I squeezed my bony knees together under my cotton dress, anticipating the moment we’d pass the designated house. I practiced the thank-you-for-the-root-beer-dad speech in my mind, hoping it would sound unrehearsed when I delivered it. My Mission As strongly as a…
