Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus…
(Hebrews 12:1-2)
Talk about teamwork among neighbors! Soon, we had a twenty foot wooden ladder propped against the culprit tree, with a Hispanic man with a limited English vocabulary comfortably balanced on its top.
What Is Hostess Anxiety? As a hostess, have you ever felt the tightness of anxiety creeping into your shoulders? You try to welcome everyone warmly,
None of these things were about Amish cooking or Amish romance novels or Amish witchcraft. After the pressures, politics, and hypocrisy of Washington, Tom found the Amish to be authentic Christian people living out their beliefs, and they changed his life.
I had made the worst of all listening mistakes. “Am I making you mad?” I asked my neighbor Mary the other day. “Yes!” she said.
Even though I have received an occasional compliment about being a good listener, I have floundered about aimlessly just as often. As humans, most of us are born with the skill of hearing. But not with the skill of being a good listener.
The cold hand of fear twisted my gut. I know Janice won’t kill me. Well, probably not. But I didn’t want anyone in the garden, and I suspected that she was going to throw a fit if she couldn’t make $10.
