Tag: gun

• When a Stranger Comes to My Door

  Some of the biggest news stories the last few weeks have been about innocent strangers being shot by someone who felt threatened by the stranger. A teenager was shot when he rang the doorbell at the wrong address where he had driven to pick up his younger twin brothers. A young woman was shot and…

  Marian

  April 25, 2023

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Adventures in Hospitality, call 911, Chicago two-flat, college student, Come Lord Jesus, dog Megabyte, fear of strangers, gun, headlines, homeless man, kindness, news, news stories, shooting a stranger, stranger, Wisconsin farmhouse

• When and Why I gave up my Gun

  

    It was the summer of 1991. Mim and I were still living in Chicago, but we spent quite a bit of time in Cambridge that summer. It was the year my dad died, and we spent most weekends throughout the summer at the farmhouse, sorting through all my parents’ belongings. My mom had died…

  Marian

  January 12, 2016

  Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  22, 22 rifle, 7 Habits, century-old farmhouse, different perspectives, dream house, giving up a gun, gun, gun ownership, keeping a gun, learn to listen, Listen, Listen Understand Act, playing cowboys and Indians, remodeled farmhouse, remodeling project, resolve our differences, rifle, Stephen Covey, summer of 1991, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Understand