Susan's Pendulum

All works --everything we do-- is motivated by faith. It's not just that good works emanate from the faith of a heart that trusts in J...

How did I manage to come up with only one decent picture of the birthday girl? Zoe: Zoe and her godmother Cassie: Nathan and his mom Lu: Gar...

We bought our used piano 23 years ago, and at that point it was about 30 years old. Our tuner told us that it can't be tuned anymore. ...

In the gravelly dirt, just outside the garage door, next to the driveway: It's the middle of November. We didn't try to plant this....

People who loved the picture book A Very Young Dancer may be interested to read the news article about the girl featured in the book. Hat ...

Joshua is nearing the end of his life. He reminds the children of Israel of all that the Lord had done to rescue them from slavery in Egypt...

So I didn't get around to posting these two months ago when they were new. No surprise there! One of the outings we took for our weddi...

Don't bother reading this unless you've read Harry Potter and know what a horcrux is. My son mentioned recently that it's almost...

EC has an excellent description . Things that seem obvious in the garden don't seem so obvious when Jesus goes and uses the example to ...

You know how you're at a loss of "What next??" after you finish a big project? I've noticed that, since I started my part...

Because it's too funny to let some of my friends miss, I need to post a couple of stories that Katie's told about my granddaughter r...

Don't let the website address for this article put you off. It's a very long article, but it addresses a common struggle -- especi...

This week and next we are praying the Third Article of the Creed: I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Chri...

I've been disappointed in the pumpkin pies I've been making. They're good. But they're not awesome. Some were made with p...

There was a discussion recently about how people out there in the post-modern Real World (TM) respond to Christians. One of the pastors sai...

We run into it all the time: people telling us what we need to do to make ourselves holier. But look what it says in the Small Catechism. (...

Could you possibly be as clueless as I was back a few years ago? I could identify cardinals and robins. I knew what dandelions were. But ...

I've been dawdling on blogging about a line in "For All the Saints." And now I don't have to. I'll just link to my c...

Gary found the movie The Trouble with Angels available on Netflix instant-play. I was working in the kitchen and overhearing bits and piec...

... with another flat tire. Last month we picked up a nail in one tire of the van. Today Gary noticed another flat on the van. This time ...