This is one of my favorite quotes . . . An ounce of mama is worth a pound of clergy.                                                  –Rudyard Kipling Do you have a favorite quote that rings true for you?…

So there we were at lunch yesterday. Steve and I were sitting at a round table with a pastor and his wife from a nearby town, along with another pastor who was attending the event with his Hispanic associate pastor.…

Right up until the end of her life, Hazel was strong and sassy and full of the spark that comes from having lived through nine decades of a life stitched together with threads of sadness and joy. She had lost one son who was only two years old, and another daughter who was in her fifties. She also buried her husband and weathered numerous other storms…

See this house?…