Angela Denton Foss

Since my last blog post, I’ve found myself in a season of one family crisis after another.  In early August, one of my closest family members (biologically that is) in our very small family “accidentally” took a whole bottle of pills and, even though she did survive, her life and the life of our family […]

I heard a sermon this week, on chapter 11 of Romans, and through the pastor’s teaching I was actually challenged to make others jealous.  I never thought I’d say this about a sermon.  We do, after all, tend to think of jealousy as a bad thing, as one of the so-called seven especially deadly sins.  […]

An altar picture a new friend recently gave me has challenged me to alter something in my own life. Not so shockingly, I met this friend, Eden’s her name, while on a quest for a good pot of loose leaf hot tea. Not long after we met, Eden took a trip to Scotland for a […]

“Clean,” a song currently being played on Christian radio, along with a most painful story playing out at a rather short distance from my own life, have prompted me to reflect once more on how God, through his Christ, sees us (as opposed to how we typically choose to see one another).  It seems that […]

Just this week, I learned that one Hebrew translation for the word “hope” is “to wait for” and, upon learning this, hope did indeed begin to make much more sense to me than it ever has before now.  I think about words and their significance a lot in general, and these days I tend to […]

My dear friend Jane Ryan, my chemo comrade who changed her address to Heaven and whom I eulogized when we celebrated her life down here, always said the same thing to me whenever I felt down or doubtful–Jane would say, “Remember whose you are, Angie.  Just remember whose you are.  You are the daughter of […]

A new song has captured me recently–“Unfinished” by Mandisa.  I was very quickly drawn into a spirit of worship by Mandisa’s lyrics and sound; and now, after an interview I watched on my daughter’s Ipad last night, I’ve become even more impacted as I’ve learned the story behind her newest work.  Over the past several […]

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about mysteries, something I’ve loved for as long as I can remember.  This is probably due to the fact that I’ve gotten sucked in, again, to a Netflix mystery/crime drama over the past several weeks.  And, since I am so darn peace-loving and really do hate anything even remotely […]

Like so many other people I know, I became sick with a wretched stomach virus a couple of weeks ago; and when I say wretched, I mean it.  Things weren’t pretty.  And even now that some time has passed, I still cannot seem to get my system back to what’s normal for me; I cannot […]

On Valentine’s Day, I had the privilege of speaking at a most unforgettable women’s event.  The group I spoke to started out as one for widows but, after the community saw what a special endeavor it was, the group expanded to include other women as well.  We met in a private room in a restaurant […]