It was 1991. I was driving across the mountain to work. Tears streaming down my face. Questioning where I was headed…not at that moment…but where my life was headed. Suddenly, I heard the following words coming from the cassette player (remember those) in my… Continue Reading “It Was 1991”
My parents gave me this strand of cultured pearls when I was in high school. I wore them in my senior picture. I wore them when I got married. I was wearing them once when my son was a baby and he pulled them… Continue Reading “Pearls”
Another Saturday morning is underway as the redhead joined by Asher, her black snaggle-toothed cat, begins their weekly task of quieting the wild brown and white hamsters tirelessly running on silver wheels in the writer’s attention deficit mind. The blonde-haired daughter of the hamster… Continue Reading “Toaster Strudels, Manna and The Bread of Life”
I have refined you, but not as silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.I will rescue you for my sake— yes, for my own sake! Isaiah:10-11 The trials and tests we go through don’t define us…they refine us! Many years… Continue Reading “Refining”
It’s mid-morning quiet, not to be confused with early morning quiet, in the gray writing room of the redhead assisted by Asher, her snaggle toothed cat. The feline supervisor of the bright gray room rolls his round green eyes from the top of the… Continue Reading “The Voice of Mercy”
“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull down your hedge.” Benjamin Franklin It’s very nostalgic when driving through the country, to see split rail fences marking the boundaries between pastures, hayfields, and gardens. Poet Robert Frost wrote,” good fences make good neighbors,” meaning that it… Continue Reading “Boundaries”
One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so he could lay his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples scolded the parents for bothering him. But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom… Continue Reading “Let the Children Come”
This print hangs on the wall in my home. I chose it for several reasons. I love hummingbirds…I love red flowers…and the phrase, Today, I Choose Joy, is a good daily reminder to keep my attitude right. Today, I Choose Joy! It’s not always… Continue Reading “Today I Choose Joy”