We celebrated our 48th Wedding Anniversary in cancer treatment. Hand in hand. Battling together. We would lose. We reached our Golden Anniversary though, surrounded by friends and family there at the lake. It was a beautiful day, not unlike the one later, walking with my granddaughter on that same shoreline. As I sat on the […]
Letters
Letter: A Promise Made Is a Promise Kept
“Be mindful always of His promise.” Do you know how hard that is? It’s hard. It’s hard to remember the promise we’ll meet again when the seat next to me in the car is empty now. It’ll be hard to remember when our 51st Anniversary comes round just days from now, that the road trip […]
Letter: The Beauty of Simple Things
Anymore, since she’s been gone, it’s the simple things, the God-reminder things, which bring tears even while smiling. It is the very last bit of whipped cream sprayed on coffee that takes the shape of a heart even as my own heart melts. It is the most delicate of all flowers – “Inspire your home […]
Letter: Morning by Morning
“Morning by morning” – even mourning by mourning – “new mercies I see.” A rose from the neighbor’s yard that has found its way through the opening in the picket fence in your yard to greet you as you sit alone in the early morning on the pillowed porch rocker where the two of you […]
Letter: “No Events”
My oldest daughter and I sat in church yesterday wiping away tears. The passage of scripture the pastor was preaching from, in his series through I Thessalonians, contained words to the effect, ‘I want you to know how it is with loved ones who’ve died so that your sorrow is not without hope.’ I don’t […]
Letter: In Cahoots in Heaven
I’ll be the first to admit I do not know the names of flowers. I just find them so beautiful. So did my wife, and so did our mom. Nothing – other than watching their children and grandchildren grow and blossom – made them happier than being down on their knees, using a small spade […]
Letter: Still David’s Bride
Chance. Coincidence. Serendipity. Imagine that. Who would have thought? Got a just-so-happened story? If you do, chances are, there is involved a dire circumstance – or two, or three; a consequent anguish of soul of some duration; a twist, or two, in the unfolding plot. What is a love story without tragedy? Sometimes we see […]
Letter: It’s About Time
Is this what a baseball looks like – the stuffing knocked out of it – after the slugger gets ahold of an opposing team’s fastball left hanging over the center of the plate? Or, more likely, is this a baseball that a dog got ahold of, or a lawnmower chewed up as a result of […]
Letter: The Clover Park School District helped me hear and speak better
By Tim Marsh, Lakes High Class of 1966 May was Better Hearing & Speech Month. I am thankful every month for the Clover Park School District helping me hear and speak better. With a congenital hearing loss, I benefitted in third grade at Park Lodge School from speech therapist Peggy Pratt of the District working […]