Carried Along
A blog about real life through the lens of Christ
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I sent a text the other day to one of my friends. With the shut down of school (and society for a while) I have lost touch with so many of my friends, especially those associated with my work or my kids’ school. I asked her how she was intending to see how she was…
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I love school, in any form. The smell of pencils, crayons, new books, all of it gives me a strange feeling of excitement. In fact, I have never missed a fall in school, not one. My boys have bought into my excitement, and are ready to go back now-especially after spending 6 months at home.…
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When I was 22 years old, I taught high school English. Among my students that year was a 16 year old mother of a 1 year old girl. It was well known that her home-life was rough as well, especially in regards to her own abusive mother. While I don’t remember her name, I do…
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When I was 18 years-old, I signed up to work with a group in Yellowstone National Park. We were to work in various areas of the park in various jobs, either housekeeping or food service, and offer Bible studies. It just so happened that I was assigned to work at Yellowstone Lake. Having grown up…
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Depression. It seems we can’t go anywhere, watch TV, read the news without hearing about it. There are endless commercials for anti-depressants and medications to take in addition to anti-depressants if we still feel down. Additionally, there are countless hotlines and programs to prevent suicide. Therapy is an ever-growing field, and now, we can even…
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In the year 2000, I began a six year stint as a teacher in a treatment facility. I had just moved back my home state of Montana, after spending 6 years in Oklahoma and Texas, when my Grandmother died tragically. I missed my family, and I was really questioning how I had spent so many…
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Everyone is at war with someone right now, it seems. Just one glimpse of the news or Facebook feed yields images of battles, fought on our own soil, civilian against civilian. The enemy? There are too many to count-the left, the right, the police, the rioters and looters, the media, the rich, the poor, one…
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Easter is one of my favorite holidays. With Easter comes the hope of new life in Christ, Springtime, and wonderful memories of sunrise services and Easter egg hunts. And this year when we aren’t having Easter services or family gatherings, it is a time for us, as believers, to really reflect on the true meaning…
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As an English teacher, I give many different writing prompts to provide writing practice for my students. One of the most interesting prompts of late asked them to retell a story from their lives but have them add a different ending. Of course, the prompt is giving them an opportunity to change the story in…
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It’s overwhelming, almost unbearable. Since March our country (and the world in some ways) has been in the throws of one crisis or another. First, the #Corona Virus, shutdowns, the myriad of consequences from the shutdown, residual fear and uncertainty of a virus resurgence, and now, violence by and against the #police leading to protests,…
Carried Along 