Do I dare mention it again? COVID-19 is everywhere. When you’ve put in nearly seven decades of life, you’ve seen shifts in direction in many facets of life and culture. Some are better than others. My life having personally touched lives of those born at least as far back as the 1880’s. I’ve heard first […]
Discussions of “Why Choose Life” often become quite heated. God’s Word and today’s advanced science* points us to life beginning at conception. Over the thousands of years (yes thousands) women have had abortions, a recognition existed, that they treated the absence of something — their time of the month, rather than eliminating a baby. Abortions […]
December 23, 2019. Amazing rainbow. Today the granddaughters and I will prepare a birthday cake for Baby Jesus — one of our annual traditions. Yes, I’ve backed up from the previous post. The day began with a series of mishaps. Here’s one: I set the oven, prepared the pan, mixed the cake, and poured it […]
After my kitty’s good morning meows, a beautiful sunrise awaited as my first New Year greeting of 2020. We found the bed well before midnight even in the earlier time zone from ours. Not partying and not sleeping-in produced its reward. The water-colored sky of blues, golds, pinks, and oranges spoke clearly of God’s glory […]
Think of cousins and you remember some of your first friends. David and my husband, Steve, share those childhood memories. When we married 46 years ago, David stood at Steve’s side as his Best Man. Friendship and family, of course, did not end all those years ago. Friday Jesus called David home. This evening in […]
Today we caught the last sunflowers of the season. What a joyful discovery! Especially, since we’ve looked for them before – never found them, and we’ve driven by them dozens of times. What attracts us to their glorious blooms, and fills us with joy viewing them? Perhaps their bright yellow and orange hues. Perhaps their […]
Jesus’ directive is clear: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ~Mark 12:31 (NLT) And truth be told, we can add “love your neighbor as Jesus’ loves your neighbor.” Jesus loves all people without consideration of any of the marks we often put on another’s worthiness. My family moved frequently. Many ‘new neighbors’ doled out their judgment […]
The dragon stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on its horns, and on each head a blasphemous name. ~Revelation 13:1 While we ran errands yesterday, my husband called my attention to the ominous black […]
NOTE: 2.25.23. I first wrote this post many years ago. In light of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, it seems very appropriate to share it again. Tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, ice storms, blizzards – all accompanied by waves of destruction of property. Buildings constructed to last are bent like toothpicks. Decades-old trees topple. […]
God expects much from His followers, because the world expects much from us. October 2002 my husband and I traveled to Vermont expecting to be greeted by a glorious display of God’s artwork in the vibrant color-drenched, God-painted autumn foliage for which the area is so famous. Instead we found leaves turned brown and falling […]
