Last week we won the trifecta of Snow Storm Challenges: No water! No electricity!! No Propane! Praise God for warm blankets! Praise God for Hope!Praise God for gas-filled cars to recharge batteries and find some warmth!Praise God for restaurants that stayed open!And Praise God for the Electric Company Power Crews, the dispatchers, the road crews who salted and cleared the … Continue reading →
We came home from the beach to an empty propane tank and a snow storm arriving on our doorstep. We’re in the que for warmth to come in a propane truck, but until then, we’re reminded of life in the first year of our marriage. When we married 37 1/2 years ago, we didn’t have hot water for the first … Continue reading →
My three-year-old grandson sat on the kitchen counter stool. It’s a favorite place for little boys who want to be bigger than they are. To sit on the stool at the counter is to sit shoulder to shoulder with his uncles. All the little ones strive to climb that mountain and prevail. I stood across from him making lunch. He … Continue reading →
In 2014, on a beach, the waves keep pushing shell pieces to the water’s edge– big and little shell pieces. Nobody wanted them. Most beachcombers had ceased to even search for there was so little hope of collecting whole shells. They only wanted the easy to find whole-shells. The waves, though, kept pulling and hurling them into the beach – … Continue reading →
I don’t think I’ve ever had a neat, tidy, easy-to-keep-up-with schedule – well, except for those six weeks after my spinal fusion surgery where I couldn’t do anything. But regular, everyday living? No! Don’t think so! Two college students living at home who love for me to cook for them. Two of the cutest grandkids that I watch during the … Continue reading →
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” ~ Isaiah 55: 8-9 I went to bed last night with a post outlined in my head only to wake up to the words for this … Continue reading →
“God’s time for the performance of his promises is when it labors under the greatest improbabilities,” Matthew Henry, Commentary on Matthew 1. Last year was a Year of Broken Things. Major surgery for me, a massively destructive tornado in our community. Lives broken through illnesses, drugs and depression. Traditions broken, businesses broken, families broken through government-sanction quarantines. Man cannot fully … Continue reading →
I am on a journey – and it’s a journey with little rest. . . until the journey is over. Sometimes on this journey, I am tempted to stop, pull out a cushion of built of tasks completed, sit on it and sigh, “I have arrived. I have earned my rest free of the chaos, of doing-doING-DOING for everyone else. … Continue reading →
“Oh Come all ye faithful,Joyful and triumphant. . .Oh come let us adore Him. . .’ I love this song. I love it even more when Andrea Bocelli sings it . When Bocelli sings “O Come all Ye Faithful,” I am there that Christmas night when the angels appeared to the shepherds. “Come, let us adore Him” . . . … Continue reading →
