Growing up as a red-head I soon grew tired of all the comments: Where did she get her red hair?  My parents were always asked this since they both had dark hair and my siblings all had brown or black hair. And my Dad’s response to people’s questions on where I got my red hair – “She […]

Today we sang a song in worship and it started me thinking. When we go to church, are we coming as worshipers or art critics? We often hear people complain about the church. It’s too formal It’s too informal The preaching is too long The preaching is not long enough They are too many hypocrites […]

  What happens when you take an American teenager away from her comfortable home and set her down in a totally unfamiliar environment?  That was the question my husband and I faced when our youngest daughter was 15.  We had a chance to move to the Philippines and teach at a local Bible school in Iloilo City. While we […]

Thirty-eight years ago my beloved husband and father of my two daughters was killed in an accident.  Only those who have suffered the loss of a loved one know what sorrow I felt. In that first moment when I realized I was a widow at 33 with two little girls to raise, the first thing […]

Long before electricity came to my grandmother’s house she had an icebox.  This was a wooden box usually lined with straw or sawdust that sat in the kitchen or pantry.  The ice man would come around with a 25 to 50 pound block of ice. My mother grew up with the ice box and even […]

Jesus is looking for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth. Thoughts of a Retired Pastor Luke 7:36-50 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat.  And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, […]

My 73rd birthday is just days away. This post of a few years ago reminds me again of God’s blessings to me and although my body is hollering “you are old” my spirit says “no – I’ve still a lot of living to do.” Grandma’s Ramblings This past weekend my husband and I visited a […]

Last year we moved to Michigan in October – just in time to enjoy the beautiful fall colors!  The street we moved to had big trees up and down the block and every time we went somewhere I loved driving down our street. We were told about a place on the northern part of the […]

My husband and I are reading through the Bible this year for our daily devotions. Today we read about Moses and how when he would come back into the camp of the Israelites after meeting with God, his face would be glowing. It got me thinking again about this post I wrote a couple of […]

When we moved into our condo last spring my husband decided to work on the unfinished basement and create a place where he could fully enjoy his love of painting.  Before this move there was never a really good place for him to keep all his painting paraphernalia.  A place where he could also display […]

I try to stay away from political posts because my goal for this blog was to encourage, and maybe make someone smile. However, our current political scene is so chaotic, and our politicians are contributing, not to unity, but division. What makes me sad is to see the church trading its beliefs to gain political […]

I posted this back in 2015 but think it is so appropriate today as serving God seems to have become to many more a hobby than a real conviction and calling….so I’m sharing it again. Then Jesus took His disciples up on the mountain and gathering them around Him, He taught them, saying: Blessed are […]

The last part of March is full of memories for me. It was March 29 I married my first sweetheart. Lonnie had just come home from a journey of duty as a Marine in Vietnam. We were married and quickly headed out to the USMC base in Quantico, Virginia. We were blessed with almost thirteen […]

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee.  Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff, and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail.  Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff’s gigantic tail.  Noble […]