History, Real Life, and Faith
Have you ever unwittingly discovered yourself an expert? My friend Shirley was having one of those crazy days. She’d worked a long shift at the hospital, needed to stop at Walmart, the post office, the grocery store and the gas station before winding up the hillside to her home on a hot day. She was bushed when she got home,…
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What’s the difference between running a business and a charity? It’s a concept Sally struggles with throughout The Sunbonnet Bride when a local calamity runs into her dreams and ambitions. Sally took a job working for a Fairhope seamstress with hopes of opening her own shop one day. Creating clever hats were at the heart of her dreams, but she knew she’d need…
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Even though I grew up in Southern California, I never gave a thought to wearing a sunbonnet. In those days, we frolicked in the sunshine and watched our hair sun-bleach and our skin turn brown. Some of us got freckles but no one would be caught dead in a sunbonnet. It was different long ago. My first introduction to the…
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My husband scuttled his submarine career to play with his children. He’d been out to sea for long periods of time as chief engineer of the oldest nuclear submarine in the Atlantic Ocean. Our boys were young, but he was conscious of the passage of time. A successful engineer in a challenging environment, he had a promising career before him,…
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Michelle Ule wrote a sequel: The Sunbonnet Bride. As a sequel toThe Yuletide Bride, The Sunbonnet Bride revisits the community of Fairhope, Nebraska during the summer of 1875. The characters remain the same, except for the new seamstress in town, Sally, and her family and neighbors from nearby farms. While Kate and Ewan from The Yuletide Bride settled down into married…
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I spoke on May 21, 2016 on how to be blessed at a local luncheon of the Lutheran Women in Missions League (LWML). Here are my remarks based on Luke 11:27-28: “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you. He [Jesus] replied,’blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.’” Context: In the verses preceding this…
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