tree: Red Letter Challenge

Oh, little oak tree, what are you doing? All through the winter you stubbornly held on to your leaves. Through wind and snow and ice and all manner of creepy, flappy, chattery critters, you clung to what you once were. Perhaps you looked to some of your older, taller siblings, and saw how they too […]

hurt: Red Letter Challenge

When I was a kid and I’d scrape a knee or an elbow, mom would sometimes break out the mercurochrome (since discontinued because it is toxic…ah, simpler times) and if there was a little bleeding, she’d slap a bandage on. With a kiss to “make it better” and a proverbial, if not actual, pat on […]

cross: Red Letter Challenge

Do you know the hymn The Old Rugged Cross? Here are just a couple of lines. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,the emblem of suffering and shame…O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,has a wondrous attraction for me… I’ll admit, though I have sung it countless times, I’ve […]