Christians around the world take communion. Some take it every time they go to church (Catholics, Lutherans, Christian Church among others). Others take it monthly and some just at Easter or Christmas. Since Jesus said to observe communion as a remembrance of Him and what his death on the cross meant, I question why some […]
This Thanksgiving the crowd around my table will be smaller than it used to be. Children grow up – jobs take them far away. Others have in-laws whose turn it is to host them. Still – I have much to be thankful for. For those family members who will be with me on Thanksgiving. For all […]
With all the news and concern about the virus and its dread for “old” people like me, I remind myself to take each day and enjoy it. This world is not my final home! Grandma’s Ramblings My husband and I love to watch HGTV. Many of the programs show clients who say they are looking […]
As a book addict, I love this writer’s post. Couldn’t resist sharing it for all my followers who are also book addicts. bluebird of bitterness A little bibliophile humor today in honor of the birthday of Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), author of Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the […]
Merry Christmas from St Johns Michigan. This is a view of our main street downtown all decorated for Christmas. This small town has so much to offer year round but it is especially beautiful this time of year. The stores down town have a decorating contest. So many unique shops. There is the Adorn Mint […]
In our continuing exploration of Michigan, today my husband and I visited Old Town in Lansing, Michigan. In 1825 a surveying crew stopped along the Grand River next to what is now Lansing and plotted land that would someday be called Old Town. James Seymour and Jacob Cooley from New York purchased the land from […]
there are two kinds of Christians: those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments.” Pastor Richard Wurmbrand Richard Wurmbrand, founder of Voice of the Martyrs was born in Bucharest, Romania. Highly intellectual, Richard was fluent […]
For many weeks this post has been on my mind. I have hesitated in writing it because the last thing I want is to offend anyone or cause more divisiveness than we already have in our nation. But as the past few days have become so bad with clashes between different factions in our nation, […]
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, […]
Growing up in church I often heard a quote from the gospel of Luke that tells us Jesus said “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. Often this would be followed by an admonition that as Christians we would have crosses we must […]
According to Mercy Ships, five billion people lack access to safe surgery. Children, teens, and adults suffer and die every day from treatable causes, and one child in eight will die before age 5. In 1978 Don and Deyon Stephens founded Mercy Ships in Switzerland. Don says that “A devastating hurricane, meeting Mother Teresa and […]
Growing up I often heard my mother say that as you age time flies faster. I always thought that was silly. Time is time. It does not move slower or faster. A minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes. Same for everyone. Now that my mother is gone and I am the old […]
When I was in junior high we had an assignment to find out our family’s background – what nationality made up our family tree. My parents did not have a lot of information to share, but Dad said his mother’s family was Irish and his father’s family German. Mother was not very clear about her father’s side […]
More wisdom from my daily devotion book. Salvation is not a self-help program. What you worship is what you become We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a […]
