Life
Better Beater
Last month, my mom woke in the middle of the night with pains in her chest. We ended up spending a couple of hours in the emergency room, but they didn’t find any problems, so we went home. Luckily, the pains never returned. We have been following up with her doctors, including having an echo […]
Live Laugh Love Scrap
When we were talking to my brother yesterday, somehow we got on the topic of the saying, “Live, Laugh, Love’. We knew there were additional descriptions added to each word, but couldn’t think of them, so we made up our own. “Live long and prosper, Laugh loud, Love life . . . Live a good […]
Overdue Swing
A friend of mine who was adopted as an infant found and was reunited with his biological mother last year. It was such an emotional story. This year, she came to visit him and he shared many of the pictures. One of them was of him on an oversized swing with his mother standing behind. […]
Blessings Reminder
At church today there was a visiting priest from a mission called Cross Catholic Outreach. He talked about the plight of many different people in many different parts of the world and how the ministry helps them. His plea for support went right along with the Gospel of the day, which was the story of the […]
Short One Hand
My mom has been having trouble recently with arthritis in her thumb. It hurts to put any kind of pressure on it and she has not played the piano in a couple of weeks. Yesterday she decided that she would just play with the right hand, so she practiced a duet that her and her […]
Continuing Friendship
A friend and her family was in town and I was glad that they made some time for us to visit. It was even their 24th wedding anniversary, which I learned as we were talking. She has always been a faithful and encouraging person who I could count on when she volunteered in youth ministry. […]
Grateful for the System
My dad had an appointment with the eye doctor today. Thankfully, everything looks great – there has been no change since his last visit. Since he had no news to share, the doctor told us about his travels to other countries as he learns and speaks about health care. He said that the health care […]
Joy of Old Friendship
We spent today at the cabin. When we arrived yesterday, we noticed that one of the neighbors seemed to be around, so we stopped. He was indeed there and we chatted for a while. Since we are very in and out of the place and others are too, we don’t visit people very much. It […]
Navy Folding
We made a trip to the cabin today. The last group of people who were here included my nephew who is in the Navy. I went to put some things away in the loft bedroom, and found the he had folded all the bedding and displayed it just so. It made me smile. I thought […]
Premonitions
A friend stopped by this afternoon. Among other things, we talked about how God prepares your heart for things coming up – if you really listen. People talk about having “premonitions”. My friend and I have had those feelings before. I think that God puts things in our hearts and in our thoughts. As we […]
Still Finding God 