by Jeanie Shaw | Apr 1, 2020 | Devotional Thoughts
Workshop Offering: Navigating Home: Finding Your Place to Belong I have pondered my home of late. Sadly, it could be called “the house of a widow and an orphan,” because that’s who lives here. I don’t like either of those words, because they both denote...
by Jeanie Shaw | Mar 26, 2020 | Devotional Thoughts
It was the summer of 1973, 3:00 am according to the clock on my bookshelf headboard. I awoke to the smell of a cigarette, a man’s voice, and the feel of pressure on my back. The man spoke, “Don’t scream. I have a knife.” For the next hour, I was shaken to the core,...
by Jeanie Shaw | Jan 14, 2020 | Devotional Thoughts
Most days I am okay. What does that mean? It means I am waking up, walking with God, and enjoying many things in life. I have things I look forward to. I smile and laugh. It is during these times when my thoughts suddenly become knotted in a contortion of confusion...
by Jeanie Shaw | Jan 1, 2020 | Devotional Thoughts
Fittingly, today I finished the last chapter for what will be my book entitled (of course) “Wednesday Wisdom With Wyndham.” I did not feel particularly inspired to write this new chapter; in fact, the blank pages kept staring me in the face as if daring me to type. I...
by Jeanie Shaw | Dec 8, 2019 | Life Lessons
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart for your prayers and support as we honored Wyndham yesterday. I felt them. Attached is a link to his Celebration of Life service. I am also including a photo of the program, which unfortunately ended up in Kentucky instead...