Amy Secrist

Tag: thanksgiving

  • The girls run through the damp grass

    “…whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God…” ~ Romans 14: 6 The girls run through the damp grass in fuchsia, orange, yellow, and red-colored swimming suits, squealing with excitement and anxiety over big brother’s impending splash of water from the pistol, or the bucket. Little brother bounds up the soft slope,…

  • Thank You for the Zebra

    I hand my baby boy his sister’s tiny toy zebra when he walks, Frankenstein’s monster-like, toward me. “Ahng-oo,” he said, unprompted, for the first time ever. I pray my own gratitude pours out that way, unprompted, in whatever language I can muster, as if for the first time ever, not because etiquette requires me to…