Faith
What you can do today
Today is Memorial Day here in the United States. A day to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and safety. What can you do today? By all means, please enjoy a BBQ, the sun on your face and a cold drink in your hand. Laugh and goof around with family and [...]
Live & give
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much love your God, show me how much you love all His children. Before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion [...]
In the details
Yesterday the boys worked through the rain to line my flower beds with mulch. Pride puffed their chests when Dad said, “Now that’s a job well done.” The grands – oh they worked hard, too – building forts and cookies with Nana. We played, we laughed, we dined and we loved. Delighted giggles filled the [...]
Keeping my Sundays
I don’t know about you but lately, life’s come at me fast. My job’s been hectic and our social life equally so. Recent rains mean the yard needs attention. This old house is always needy and it feels like someone’s calling for me on a steady basis. I have scrapbooks to finish and graduation invites [...]
Action & insight
So, in January of our oldest son’s Senior year, I started assembling a scrapbook of his photos for the family Graduation party. I scurried around, finding pictures here and there, and, in my usual analytical style, laid out a spreadsheet of important trips and milestones to catalog. Painstakingly, night after night, I worked on it [...]
Go ahead
Let them see your brokenness; let them see the cracks in your armor – for that’s how the light gets out. Will you let us see your brokenness?
The point
If you lose your cool because traffic made you late for yoga, you’ve missed the point, don’t you think? If you stand on the sidelines hurling obscenities at a coach’s conduct, you’ve missed the point, don’t you think? If you swear and sulk because family commitments made you tardy to prayer group, you’ve missed the point, [...]
With a click & a prayer
My friend, Sandi, blogs about her adventures as a Dukan-living midwife in China. We’ve never met, but I can tell you this: she’s a fascinating woman with a great spirit and someone I would love to meet in person one day. Sandi wrote a post on behalf of her beautiful grand-daughter, Celeste. An excerpt: As [...]
ABCs – easy as 1-2-3
Both Jeanette at A View from the Middle and Dianna at These Days of Mine presented me with a new blog award, the ABC (Awesome Blog Content) award recently. Thank you ladies; I am honored that you feel my blog has awesome content! When accepting the ABC award , the recipient is supposed to list [...]
In the wildwood
There’s a church in the valley by the wildwood No lovelier place in the dale No spot is so dear to my childhood As the little brown church in the vale Oh, come to the church by the wildwood Come to the church in the dale No place is so dear to my childhood As [...]
