by Ingrid Lochamire | Sep 6, 2015 | Good Books
Great friendships are a two-way street. Both of you gain and both have something to offer the other. My friend Brenda Yoder is young enough to be my daughter (okay, let’s say my younger sister), but she has taught me so many things about Godly womanhood and...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Sep 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
I did it again this morning. I ate breakfast in front of the morning news, flipped open my netbook, dropped in on Facebook, answered an e-mail and settled in to write this blog post. It was then the Lord gently tapped me on the shoulder and said “Yes?”...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Aug 27, 2015 | Faith
Young women have been on my mind a lot lately. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve spent selah* in Titus, Paul’s letter to the young pastor he assigned to the Greek island of Crete. As I read slowly and contemplatively, and as I hear our pastor teach on...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Aug 20, 2015 | Family
I usually don’t mind change, but it’s funny the things you miss once they’re gone. Things like the “boom, boom, boom” of a dump truck at 6:30 a.m. Or the air brakes of a semi tractor as it slows down outside our front door. Or the loud...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Aug 13, 2015 | Writing
The cicadas are singing. Like clockwork, they began trumpeting their end-of-summer tune on the first day of August, just as the first golden walnut leaves drifted to the grass. Every year, I’m surprised at how swiftly, yet gently, nature makes her moves....