Teresa D. Glenn

Making Our Words Count

I was a school teacher for nine years.  I loved it.  It was stressful and challenging, yet very rewarding when I saw positive change in a student. In my final four years I taught teenagers, all of whom had experienced years of academic failure.  Also, they'd received plenty of attention for ...
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Why did I say that?

"The conversation was going fine - Why did I say that at the end?!" "Why did I have to have the last word?!" "Why didn't I just listen?!" None of these are my thoughts as the "unfortunate" words run out of my mouth.  Instead, self-righteousness, self-justification, judgement or pride won the moment ...
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Making Plans

Some of us like to plan; some of us don't.  But when it's decision time for where to live, what to do about a relationship, what kind of job to get, which degree to pursue . . . we want to know the best plan or what we should do next. Unfortunately, we often put all this pressure on our self to get ...
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Discouragement

"Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!" (Ps. 27.14) My kids don't listen to me.  Our child is being bullied.  We can't agree on anything...  Our son has stopped communicating with us.  Our daughter is depressed.  They fight all the time.  I think she has ...
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Building Bridges with Siblings

Siblings . . .  What comes to mind?  Best friend, arch-rival, giggles, tears, supportive, teasing, inseparable, irritating... It really depends on who you ask!  When my 3 brothers and I were growing up, we  did  practically everything together.  I have lots of fond memories of just hanging out ...
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In His Hands

"...He's got the whole world in His hands..." When I was a little girl, we used to sing this song all the time.  Though God's name is not used, I knew that's who we were singing about, though I doubt that's what I was thinking most times we sang it... I was probably just singing, not really ...
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Accomplishment

Earlier this month our son Ellison graduated from The Citadel, the military college of South Carolina.  Those were four challenging years - for him, going through it and for my husband and me, watching from a distance! With each cadet that I met over the years, I was fascinated to learn that most ...
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SMILE!

I love to receive a smile.  Don't you? Whether I'm walking through a store, standing in a line or idling at the traffic light, when someone shares a smile, I smile.  Their effort has an effect.  If I'm in a bad mood, troubled about something or sad, my smile isn't all that big, but on the inside, ...
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Being Mom

I've been musing over some of the daily occurrences or "events" of being a mom.  They're non-"events" to the general public, but they fill our thoughts, our minutes and hours. Things like ... Listening - to excitement, whining, laughter, fighting, imagination being played out, heartache, excuses, ...
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SO BIG!

I love May.  But it is a busy month!  It seems to have an extra set of moving parts because it's the wrap-every-thing-up month. We're busy writing thank you notes or buying thank you gifts, celebrating the end of another season of commitments and/or the school year through parties, luncheons, or ...
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“Do you like this one?”

Recently while browsing in a store I overheard a little girl say, "Mommy, do you like this one?"  Her endearing tone intrigued me to glance her way, for which I was rewarded the precious view of her struggling to hold up a pocketbook for her mommy to consider.  The mom sweetly responded no, and then ...
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