Cut Tulips: Growing Past Setbacks

In the fallout from breast cancer treatment last year, my physical strength and flexibility has taken a big hit. This setback has been debilitating at times and certainly disappointing. It’s one of my “cut tulips.” Some necessary changes or subtraction of meds has helped since August, and just this week with a new rheumatologist, I feel some hope that I can been free of mild-to-moderate chronic pain soon. But some changes appear to be permanent. In the throes of my woes, I have felt the need to identify and claim the kind of life I want to lead. So in […]

Hello my friends, here’s Mary Naegeli popping up in “the room next door” to Bringing the Word to Life. Life in the last two years has been a bit of a wild ride, and I find myself in the position of having to undergo a personal renovation.  I continue to “bring the Word to life” in fulfillment of my fundamental calling as a Christian and a minister, and I will continue to add posts there when the point is particularly biblical in nature. But here on Cut Tulips, I want to process the construction project God is working in my