Faith

Decisions Made

You know that pile of papers that just builds higher and higher? I just don’t understand why it is so difficult to keep up with. I have been trying to work on mine a little every day. I finally got most of them sorted out and got some filed away. Today I got my medical insurance […]

To Know Someone

This morning my parents and I were talking about sleeping habits. My mother said when she was younger, she used to sleep with the radio on classical music all night long. When she was about to get married, she wondered how that was going to work out. She decided that she wouldn’t be able to […]

Reflection, Sorrow, and Grace

Today I gathered up all of Goldie’s things that I thought could be used by someone else. I brought most of them to the vet that we met at first – St. Francis Animal Hospital. I thought from the beginning that this was a very fitting name. I spoke again to one of the wonderful […]

The Old Cowboy Hat

Yesterday my parents and I headed on up to their cabin in the mountains for a couple of days. It had been quite a while since they were able to spend time up there other than a quick trip to make sure everything was still working properly. We were looking through things and I found […]

Homeless Awareness One Step at a Time

An amazing young man I know started off on an adventure today – he is walking from his home in Bow, New Hampshire, to Washington DC. It is all to raise awareness and funds for the homeless. He writes that while volunteering at a soup kitchen, he met a man who served in the military […]

Quality of Life

My poor old dog is continuing on a downward spiral and I have been questioning if I am doing what I need to and/or should be doing to help her through this last stage of her life. I was able to make an appointment with the wonderful vet that we saw last month and took […]

Cooked Oven

A few weeks ago, I pushed a button to select a burner on the stove and it made a loud POP. I was terrified. We tested it after it cooled down and it seemed to be OK, so I continued to use it. The other day I turned on one of the other burners and […]

Ask the Lord to Cast Out Your Demons

Ah, a new day begins. When I got out of bed this morning, I was ready to start fresh. One of the daily words of wisdom I get in my email simply stated, “Ask the Lord to cast out your demons.” I chuckled a bit as it was so fitting to what was going on. […]

Blessings Among Trials

Yesterday, I turned a burner on the flat stove top and it made a big POP, which terrified me. Then it stopped working. A few minutes later as I was trying to finish dinner, a big bee buzzed by me. My mom is allergic to bees, so I encouraged her to stay in her room […]

Multicultural Worship

Today at church, the children’s group led the music along with some of the Spanish ministry in celebration of upcoming Cinco de Mayo. It reminded me of a summer mission trip that I attended with the high school youth group a couple of years ago. One of the evenings, the whole camp was invited to […]