Abby Loney

I just saw three daffodils in bloom in a neighbor’s front yard.  In the first week of February!  Delightful but concerning.  What will happen when real February shows up?  Will those lovely yellow blooms stand tall and resilient through the rain and wind and typical February temps?  I hope so!  But for now, they’re just spreading smiles and cheeriness.  That’s their job […]

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.  And let us consider how to stir up one another to […]

Sometimes only for a season is something of significant import in your life.  Like Barbie dolls maybe.  Or butterfly nets.  Or Sluggo.    My older sister and I were crazy about our Barbie dolls for a couple of years.  Then we moved on to . . . I’m not sure what.  But I hadn’t thought much at all about Barbie dolls […]

In my growing up years, which shape so much of our later perceptions, the word “fool” was a simple yet gently chiding description of the boy on the school bus who dropped his lunch box in the mud puddle and then carried it dripping dirty wet dribbles all the way to the last seat on […]