This is the last piece of my pioneer series, at least for now. Hope you enjoyed it!
Category: Biblical living
Chasin’ Fireflies
The original song of this title is on the following link, arranged and sung by Elanna Lund, who’s currently in a contest fundraiser. I’ve posted the link, so you can vote for her if you’d like. Below is another version I wrote as another poem in the Pioneer series, which I updated below.
Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Easter (Part 3 of 3)
SCENE 5: (Full light on stage R couch) GIRL (slowly): So Jesus was all alone: Just One, in the darkness, against hundreds. All His friends scattered when He was arrested, just like He said they would. BOY (snorts): Can you blame them? There wasn’t much they could do against an armed mob and a Roman…
Wow! So That’s What Really Happened: Modern kids discover the Bible’s timeless truth about Easter
AN EASTER PLAY SCENE 1: (Light full on stage R couch with Boy, leaning on stage L arm, looking stage L) GIRL (from other side of couch where she’s playing with iPod): Do you see him yet? BOY: Not yet . . . Wait a minute, I—no, never mind. (Stops leaning, plops down on couch)…
How Good Is God and How Bad Is Sin?
While reviewing Romans 6, verse 21 hit me: “Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.” Sin ends in death, every time. That little white lie? Keep coddling it, and like a baby viper, it will naturally kill you….
First Things
One Sunday when my children were very young, our family made it to church with enough time before the service for an elderly saint to ask how things were going at home. I replied that some days we didn’t seem to accomplish a thing. “Did you read them the Bible?” she asked. “Yes.” “Then you…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 3. Plus: This Fall-en World
Since this last Chapter 2 segment of Chase is so small, below it I’m also posting another updated seasonal vignette originally published in 2020. Betty Rawlings looked across her Bible at the two boys devouring her gingersnaps. “It’s good to see that my reading didn’t affect your appetites.” She tousled Forrest’s hair, then smoothed it…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 2
As Forrest and Tom daydream of their rodeo futures, the two boys share their hopes and heartaches.
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2
Eileen insists that Harvey hide his rodeo past from their daughter, but now Alison is planning her future as a world-champion barrel racer with her cousin Jenny. Alison’s aunt and father wonder how the Austin family will ever reconcile the life Al dreams of with the one Eileen desires.
Carpe Diem
My husband and I were thrilled with our firstborn, but people congratulating us usually added, “Enjoy your time with her. Soon she’ll be in school and you’ll be writing again.” Sure, I’d think, in about eighteen years. The reality was almost double, although God had clearly blessed us with our miracle child. I was young,…
Constance Colson-Clay 