Halloween is not here yet, Thanksgiving is over a month away and we have 70 days until Christmas. But today when I went to my mailbox, I found two Christmas catalogs. As I looked at them, I was struck by how different these appeals for my shopping dollars were. One was from American Girl and […]
When Jesus was on earth He seemed to assume that as His followers there were things we would naturally do. Not to try to earn a place in heaven. Not to rack up points on the “goodness” scale. Not to “prove” we were His followers. No. Things we would do because as a committed follower […]
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 […]
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday morning when I woke up I posted a verse from the Psalms: This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. Since we could not go to church I was thinking that I could complain about the restrictions right now with […]
Growing up in church we always sang hymns from a large hymn book that was placed in holders on the back of the church pew. Many times there would also be a Bible there. The “song leader” would announce the page number before each song and we would all turn to that page and sing […]
When I was a young girl just learning to read, my primary storybook was the Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible for Young and Old. Originally published in 1904 it was the complete Bible story including the Old Testament and the New Testament. Unlike most of today’s Bible Storybooks for children, this book was a continuous narrative of the […]
What a year 2020 was! Coronavirus – and all the uncertainty and problems that has created. Loss of jobs/income, loss of ability to travel freely to name just a few. Division over wearing a mask or not wearing one. The election also brought such division and unrest. The arguments over BLM. We were looking forward […]
If you follow my blog you know my husband and I are avid Scrabble players. Very competitive, we started keeping a record of the scores of our games in 2008. We laugh that we are actually addicted to the game. My Addiction has Returned Thankfully we are evenly matched. It would be no fun if […]
Then Jesus took His disciples up on the mountain and gathering them around Him, He taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven Blessed are the meek Blessed are they that mourn Blessed are the merciful Blessed are they that thirst for justice Blessed are you when […]
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 […]
Recently I was doing some clean-up on my computer getting rid of files that I no longer use. I found a file that I created several years ago when I wrote down some memories of my life growing up to share with some of my grandchildren. In that file I found a letter I sent […]
Almost two years ago my husband and I moved to Michigan. Situated close to the middle of the “mitten” we have spent the last two years exploring this beautiful state. We have fallen in love with the many small towns around the state that are full of arts and crafts, charming down towns that have […]
Finally, spring had arrived! After a very long, cold and snowy winter, spring had come at last and warm temperatures were promised for the next week. We were so excited! At last the girls’ daddy could take them fishing in our pond. More important to me, now my husband and I could begin our new […]
Listening to music this morning, this song brought tears – tears of joy – to my eyes. It has been 66 years since I started this race with Jesus Christ. There have been mountain tops of great joy, great excitement (to mention only a few – marriage, birth of children and grandchildren) and valleys of […]
