I do the weekly church bulletin and monthly newsletter for my church.  It is a job that I take seriously.  Each week I try to promote the various programs of my church, enlist volunteers as needed and share words that I hope will encourage and challenge our church family. My husband helps greet and pass […]

Six years ago a dear friend died just before Christmas.  My husband and I had watched him battle cancer (two different kinds) for over two years.  It was hard to see him slowly lose the battle.  He fought hard and he never lost his courage or his great sense of humor. His family asked my […]

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 […]

In my reading I love to collect those one or two sentence phrases that make me laugh or make me think. Here are a few I hope you enjoy. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society…Mark Twain Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits […]

Those of you who have followed my posts for awhile know that my husband and I are Scrabble addicts.  We play with a super scrabble board.  It has more spaces for words than a regular Scrabble board and 200 tiles instead of 100. We have kept a record of our scores since 2008 and are […]

With recent health issues, I have been spending way too much time at home.  Experiencing a lot of severe pain, I am faced with two choices. Take pain medications and then feel too sleepy or zombie-like to do anything. Don’t take pain medications and hurt too bad to do anything. I have missed church, given […]

This is from the message my husband gave today at Hazel Findley Assisted Living: The Gospel of Matthew as well as other Gospel writers presents the reality of Jesus’ death as an absolute certainty. Those standing around the cross watched as Jesus “breathed his last.” – John 19:30 tells us He bowed His head and gave […]

Spring break this year found my both my daughter and her husband out of town on their jobs leaving my husband and I to take care of – and entertain – our eight-year-old granddaughter. What to do? We played school with the animals.  My husband bought these animals at the local zoo one year when […]

Several years ago on this day (I will not say how many – that’s for my daughter to tell) I became a mother for the first time. What an awesome moment – the moment I held her in my arms. I whispered to her how we were going to be such good friends.  We had […]

February is Black History Month. Although it was not officially recognized by our government until President Gerald Ford acknowledged it in 1976 and stated “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history,” it was not a new idea. Carter G. Woodson, who has […]

I’m not really one to make new year’s resolutions but this year I have said I want to write more consistently and also to add to the blogs I now follow. So, how am I doing?  Well- it’s is now the 4th of the month and I am just now starting to write again.  Funny […]

Brrrrr!  It’s so cold outside.  So today while staying snug inside I read and thought one more time on the Christmas story which we have just observed.  Now it’s time to move forward and begin thinking about spring and about the resurrection story. But one writer I read during the Christmas season still speaks to […]

As I sit in my easy chair and watch the birds in my back yard – robins, cardinals, flinches, blue jays and doves, this poem comes to my mind. Said the Robin to the Sparrow; “I should really like to know Why these anxious human beings Rush about and worry so?” Said the Sparrow to […]

On January 26, 1837 the state of Michigan became the 26th state in the United States of America. That makes the state 182. I have only lived here four months but I have found so much that is interesting and I can hardly wait until spring to begin exploring. With 3,200 miles of shoreline Michigan […]