by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 24, 2017 | mercy
This is Grandson Number One. When we were taking family pictures at Thanksgiving, he asked me to snap this one of him with his great-grandmother. Note the look of adoration on her face. Yeah, we all look at John Michael that way. (Okay, the male members of the family...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 15, 2017 | mercy
On the same week that we honor the life and work of a man who had a brave dream for our nation, a whole lot of people are really scared. Some people I count as friends are afraid that the world will take ten giant steps back on Innauguration Day. And, they assume...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 9, 2017 | mercy
In honor of a national holiday in our family, I’m reposting this wake-up moment I had a few years ago: I was in the middle of a Thursday afternoon messy desk when someone in our waiting room picked up Serenity’s memoir. The woman read the back jacket blurb and...
by Kathy Nickerson | Jan 2, 2017 | mercy
“Here begins the Good News about Jesus the Messiah …” Those were the first words I read in my Bible for 2017. I pretty much stopped there. It was only half a verse. But, I felt like God pulled back a stage curtain, cued an orchestra,...