Susan's Pendulum

Gary and I both have to change our passwords frequently at work. Many companies' computers are programmed to require new passwords ever...

Is there a finite amount of suffering, like there are groceries or library books or moving boxes? Sometimes it almost seems like someone can...

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly of heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, an...

You lug the basket of wet clothes out to back yard. You hang the clothes on the line. When they're dry, you fold them, place them in t...

In Psalm 139, the psalmist says, "The night shall be light about me," and "The darkness and light are both alike to You....

With symposium, company, and berry-time, I have been lax recently in remembering my vitamins, green drink, and enzymes. Now I'm feeling...

When she arrived yesterday: "Nanna, you don't have milk in your breasts." Out in the garden, while she was by the sprinkler a...

The strawberries seemed to be done. Now, the drier & warmer days have them producing again. I went out yesterday to fetch in the ...

Recently, Karin and EC and I were talking about weeds and pruning raspberries. I teased Karin that she should be eating day lily buds , s...

Why does it take 10-15 minutes to turn on the sprinkler? It should take 10-15 seconds . Short of buying a new sprinkler every spring and a...

The most important thing to know is that a berry cane will make a shoot and grow up one summer, but it's the following summer that it be...

"He will come to judge the quick and the dead." Early in life, Luther quaked in his boots, fearing the Judge. We, too, sometimes...

The receptionists at the doctor's office were chatting about their weekend. One was the honoree at a baby shower. She was talking abou...

It's a whole lot easier to homeschool a kid who's bursting with curiosity. They must know what's inside that book! They must u...

If you're interested in a Learn-By-Heart schedule already put together for the next school year, there's one available at peacesusse...

Once upon a time, it was not uncommon for women to die from pregnancy or childbirth. Once upon a time, babies with birth defects died withi...

The Old Testament reading last Sunday [in the three-year series] was Genesis 1. It's about God making all the stuff. This week I hear...

No matter how often I washed that shower curtain, the hem of it just stayed icky. Today I attacked with a three-pronged assault. First I sq...

In Lutheran circles (and in many other denominations too) we often say that there are times when it's not sinful to get a divorce. We s...

Is amendment of life a necessary part of repentance? I was always taught that it was. After all, are you really sorry that you stole the ca...