Dearest Dan,
I pray that your special day is blessed beyond measure!
May the Lord your God pour out to you His abundant love, grace, faithfulness, joy and peace.
May your students both near & far affirm your calling to young people and the influence you have had in their lives.
May your co-workers at JECHS encourage, support and [...]
Today is a happy day!
Sixteen years ago today, my eldest daughter Michelle attended a children’s outreach service at our church and at the end she walked the aisle and gave her heart to the Lord Jesus as her Savior & Lord. I can clearly remember sitting with her in the back of a dimly lit sanctuary [...]
This summer my sweet 10 year old Grace decided she wanted to start a garden. Being the homeschooling Mom that I am…I said, ”Great! This can be your summer science project.” (my motto – everything in life is school!) With that she began to research what might grow best in our backyard, purchased all the [...]
Gloria Virginia Winslow Borden is a lovely Christian lady with a strong, independent, adventuresome spirit whose positive outlook, faithful heart, solid commitment, strength and encouragement have had an awesome impact on my entire life. She is my mother!
My mother gave me life, love, physical, emotional and spiritual nourishment, a solid family and a warm & [...]
Four years…will fly by!
How do I know? Well after dragging my kids out of bed last Tuesday to watch the historic inauguration of our first black president (which we would have watched the inauguration events no matter who was being sworn in – to me it is patriotic!), I began to reminisce on past inaugurations.
Just [...]
It’s the day after.
Today could have been so very different for us all. Instead of waking up this morning with the good news warming our hearts of the “Miracle on the Hudson” – the incredible crash landing of a US Air commercial plane into the Hudson River in New York – in which everyone survived, we could [...]
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The Preamble to The [...]
Early on a Sunday morning, October 22, 1995, my life was forever changed. Dan and I were in bed when the ringing of the phone jolted us out of our deep slumber just before dawn. I could hear my mothers quivering voice on the answering machine pleading with us to pick up the phone. As I jumped out [...]
I’ve never been one to live vicariously through my kids. In fact, I have often felt pity on parents who were so over involved in their children’s athletic endeavours, academic achievements, musical or dramatic talents and even their “love lives” - it was as if they were trying to either re-create their own childhood or live a [...]
Sunday June 15 was the “perfect Father’s Day”.
First let me say that anyone who feels “sorry” for my dear darling hubby because he has six daughters needs to think again. This man is one very pampered Dad! For weeks the girls have been planning and scheming and continuing to come up with more ideas to [...]
This past weekend fifty two excited students marched across the platform to receive their diplomas and become the 10th graduating class at Jim Elliot Christian High School. We now have over 350 alumni who are making a difference in this world after being trained, taught, discipled and mentored at this exceptional school.
Dan and I are proud to have been a part [...]
High school sports – there’s nothing quite like ‘em.
I have spent much of my life playing, coaching and now regularly attending high school athletic events. I was on the swim team and played field hockey in high school (and college too). As a youth pastor I attended high school sporting events all over the city to [...]
One of the things you become very aware of when living at the beach is that the weather changes swiftly and that it is never consistent from moment to moment or with what the weather reports say it will be.
You can wake up to a beautiful sunrise thinking “Oh it is going to be a beautiful sunny [...]
Last week I arrived at my favorite place in the world….the beach at Rio Del Mar in Aptos, on the California coastline! Every year for the past seven years, I have been blessed beyond belief to be able to spend some time at a house right on the ocean.
Each February, as I drive around the corner and [...]
How many of you watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” during the holidays? (if you are like my family, it is a tradition!) At one point during that movie George Bailey says – “Aren’t you tired of just dreaming about things?” I think about that line a lot during the holiday season. It seems that many people [...]
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