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Pick: to choose or select someone or something from alternatives

Pick: to choose or select someone or something from alternatives

by Carole Duff | Sep 15, 2025 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading | 4 comments

Pick a flower, cucumber, berries—um, maybe leave these small, tart cranberries on the viburnum for the birds. A pick in basketball or football—even a pick six. The picks we’ll examine today are more fundamental choices, major decisions in the spiritual realm. Pick:...
A good person leaves a legacy for their children’s children

A good person leaves a legacy for their children’s children

by Carole Duff | Sep 8, 2025 | Faith, Family | 2 comments

The word legacy does not necessarily appear in scripture, depending on the translation, but the concept does, usually in the word “inheritance,” as in Proverbs 13:22a NIV quoted in the title. With that indulgence, let’s explore what legacy means. The legacy of God’s...
The girl can’t see the woman, but the woman sees the girl behind

The girl can’t see the woman, but the woman sees the girl behind

by Carole Duff | Sep 1, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 8 comments

Last week, I looked behind, viewing 8mm family films from the early-to-mid 60s when I was between the ages of ten and sixteen. I saw my parents, grandparents, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, many now empty chairs. The girl I was couldn’t see the woman she would...
“We’re actors—we’re the opposite of people!” The Player

“We’re actors—we’re the opposite of people!” The Player

by Carole Duff | Aug 25, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 2 comments

Opposite: adjective, noun, adverb, preposition. Let’s take a look at the noun in a play, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Actors: the opposite of people  “We’re actors – we’re the opposite of people!” states The Player in Tom Stoppard’s...
You Have a Calling: how I discovered and fulfilled mine

You Have a Calling: how I discovered and fulfilled mine

by Carole Duff | Aug 18, 2025 | Faith, Writing and Reading | 0 comments

1973 college graduation 2001, last Texas Christmas 2024, our calling With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed...
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