Aunts and Nieces

Posted by on May 15, 2012 with 4 Comments

Aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews! What treasures we have in our own families—treasures to tap and treasures to offer.  Last week my niece graduated from Vanderbilt University—one in a class of 1004. (And that was only the Bachelor’s Degree people!) Steve and I made a special effort to be there, and she was very appreciative.  The next day, we visited my Aunt Juanita, who is over half way between 91 and 92. What contrasts! One full of hope, one full of

Read more

Packing for Six Weeks

Posted by on May 11, 2012 with 0 Comments

Recently several people have said to me, “How do you pack for a six-week trip?” They are referring, of course, to our LST mission trip to Natal, Brazil—June 12-July 31.  The short answer is, “The same way you pack for a week trip,” for that is true. We will do laundry every week, at least. Our clothes will probably be hung to dry, so we won’t take any clothes that need to be drycleaned or that will take long to

Read more

Part VI: I Want to Be…

Posted by on May 9, 2012 with 0 Comments

I want to be Enid. I wrote about her last year after we visited. I want to be Enid. This interminable series must end! I’ve omitted too many people that I love and admire–so many who have influenced me, inspired me, and encouraged me–and continue to do so. Of course I most want to be like the one that is the first and the last, the beginning and the end. I’m so grateful that Jesus has replicated himself in so many of his children here

Read more

Part V: I Want to Be…

Posted by on May 8, 2012 with 0 Comments

Our friends R and J are dear and special to us simply because we are friends. But some things I know about them make me want to be them. Educated and intelligent, the Lord blessed them with bountiful financial resources. Because of that, they are eager to share. They paid all the expenses for a youth minister and his wife to go to the Pepperdine Lectures. They financed an impoverished young man’s Christian college education–even a car. They no doubt helped

Read more

Part IV: I Want to Be…

Posted by on May 7, 2012 with 0 Comments

When I was twelve, our rural Tennessee church had a “gospel meeting”–seven days of church, afternoons and evenings. The preacher that year was Bill Long, probably in his twenties at the time. I was convicted that I wanted to be a Christian and be baptized, and my parents, who’d put me off earlier, agreed. The evening was exciting. Immersion by a man I admired. My sins washed away. I was clean and fresh and new. My parents kept in touch with Bill,

Read more

Part III: I Want to Be…

Posted by on May 4, 2012 with 0 Comments

I want to be Nena Miller. We first knew her as the wife of Steve’s department chair, Edd Miller. She was a gracious hostess and a smiling presence at any social function. At the annual department picnic, I rarely had a conversation with Nena because she was always playing with the children. On the floor or in the grass, she would entice the toddlers and respond to the older children with equal joy. All the children loved her, but she

Read more

Part II: I Want to Be…

Posted by on May 2, 2012 with 3 Comments

Years later, as we worked with the Central Church in Cincinnati, we met Bob and Ruth. Everyone admired Bob and Ruth, and so did we. They were loving to each other and to everyone else. They took people in to live with them when it crowded their four children. Finally they moved to a large house where they could easily house families or individuals in need of shelter and nurturing. As I’ve said about my parents’ house, some stayed for

Read more

I Want to Be…

Posted by on May 1, 2012 with 6 Comments

When we’d been married two or three years, I remember hearing an Earl Nightingale radio broadcast where he suggested that we think of someone we wanted to be like and then study that person to become like him or her. That was the first time I’d considered how much I admired my husband’s sister Nancy. From then on, I watched her and listened to her and was never disappointed in what I saw.  I was enthralled by her good deeds

Read more

In Praise of the Trivial

Posted by on April 27, 2012 with 4 Comments

This post is in praise of the lowly sausage biscuit.  A well-cooked sausage patty on a fresh-baked homemade biscuit is the perfect meal or snack when time or energy is lacking. (Even stale ones aren’t bad!) You get plenty of protein for the long haul and ample carbs for the present.  This is especially true when there is a death and you’d like to supply food the family can really use. The sausage biscuit can be eaten without utensils, standing

Read more

How Do We Deal with Being Hurt?

Posted by on April 24, 2012 with 0 Comments

Steve’s sermon Sunday was “Relationships with Those Who Hurt You”—a tough topic on any level. That topic was a request or he might not have had the courage to tackle it. But, as it turns out, a basic Bible principle pretty much covers it:  “Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord” (Romans 12:19, NIV). (Of course, as Steve said,

Read more
Page 1 of 1512345»10...Last »

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4

I enjoy my roles as wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, speaker, writer, sister, niece, aunt, and friend. As the title indicates, these are just the musings I might share with you over a cup of coffee.

Lanita Boyd, Author

Subscribe to My Blog

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

 Subscribe in a reader