My Mom – Lois!

Excerpted with permission from Goins, J. (2013). The in-between: Embracing the tension between now and the next big thing. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. One year, we as a church buried two of our oldest members: Lois and Al. Within months these two pillars of our community were gone, leaving those of us who were left…

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peacocks and sweet memories

A friend sent a rough draft of the memoir he is writing – in one chapter he writes about my Mom – especially about those last months.  Tomorrow would have been Mom’s 81st birthday.  I’ve been reminiscing … she was a beautiful lady, generous, smart, and funny! In the latter years of her life she…

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