Beautiful music – beautiful pictures – great encouraging message! Full Of Roses Inspirationals As Christians we need to encourage one another to keep going! As to win the race! Together we can! Press on! View original post
During my marriage to my pastor husband, I have kept scrapbooks of our many years in ministry. Looking through the scrapbooks tonight I came across the pages from when my husband retired as pastor. (This was his first retirement. He came out of retirement twice – once to serve with me as worship pastors, once […]
My husband and I hold services at two different assisted living facilities and I also give a piano concert twice a month at one of them. Today my husband shared with the residents the story in the Gospel of Luke about the ten lepers that came to Jesus asking to be healed. That story really […]
I remember the moment I held my daughter in my arms. It was overwhelming to realize I was a mother, personally responsible for this tiny baby. Looking at her, I whispered that we were going to be the best of friends. I shared with her my hopes and dreams of the hours we would spend […]
I first posted this 6 years ago. This Christmas as we face gatherings that may be smaller than usual, family and friends we will miss seeing as Covid has restricted travel, it could be easy to get depressed or start complaining. I just want to encourage everyone to remember while our table may not be […]
When I wrote this post I was only thinking about downsizing to make life a little easier. I had no idea that it would really pay off when we moved several months later – not just to a new home, but to a new state. I recently read statistics compiled by The SpareFoot Storage Beat […]
It’s the holiday season and so it begins. Many Christians complaining because people are saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” I hear claims that we cannot now say “Merry Christmas.” But no one is stopping us from saying that. A few employers may ask their people to use the “Happy Holidays” response to customers, […]
I first posted this 6 years ago. This Christmas as we face gatherings that may be smaller than usual, family and friends we will miss seeing as Covid has restricted travel, it could be easy to get depressed or start complaining. I just want to encourage everyone to remember while our table may not be […]
It was over 60 years ago but I still remember the day as if it were yesterday. What an exciting day! The day my family got a television set. The first television I saw was at my grandmother’s house. It had a very tiny screen and, of course, the shows were in black and white. […]
Throughout our ministry my husband and I have always conducted services at nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Twice a month I now do a music recital at a nursing home. One of the most requested songs we get from the “old folks” is always the song “In the Garden.” It has also been one […]
Christmas 2019 is history. My decorations are all back in the boxes and the boxes are all in the storage area in the basement where they will sit until next December. Here and there I see a few houses with Christmas lights still up but most of my neighbors have removed all the reindeer, snowmen […]
Summer 2017 Last year my husband built our youngest granddaughter a tree house. He called it “Odd Squad Headquarters” as she was a fan of the show at that time. She was so excited and she spent the first day going up and down the stairs so much it made me tired just watching. We […]
For days all we heard on the cable news was concern about the Ebola crisis. Then – suddenly nothing! Why no news? We Americans have such short attention spans and the news media seems to be able to only concentrate on one news item at a time. Whenever something shocking or dramatic happens, it is […]
In Boston there is a Women’s Memorial that honors three women from our country’s early beginnings. By Ingfbruno – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27653635 One of the statutes anyone familiar with American history would recognize. She is Abigail Adams, wife of our second president, John Adams, and mother of our sixth president, John Quincy […]
