Facebook lends its users a peek into the thoughts and lives of their friends or loved ones. Each day as I ‘check in’ on my home page, I’m uplifted and encouraged by updates that my good friends share. Many get me thinking. My friend Rachel recently posted this thought and it had my mind racing:… Continue Reading
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Mary, Mother of Jesus
When the virgin Mary was made aware of her pregnancy, she journeyed to the home of her friend Elizabeth who was pregnant with John the Baptist, and there sot comfort and acceptance in her condition. Upon her return home she was further along in her pregnancy and sure to face opposition. During this season through… Continue Reading
Wonderful Winter
Where I live winter is long. Long, dark, bitter cold, full of smog and down right miserable. I’m not the first to admit winter is my least favorite season. Fortunately, natures trade off for enduring winter hardships are her other seasons: spring, summer and fall. No waking up early to slip and slide to a… Continue Reading
What Makes a Happy Wife?
One of the many highlights of marriage manifests itself when your spouse spontaneously says: “Your beautiful!” Dressed in your pajamas, with hair up and a make-up-less face, you inquisitively reply: “Thank You, even looking like this?” “I mean on the inside and the outside”, he lovingly acknowledges after many years of marriage, “but even more… Continue Reading
The Best in all the World
Do you enjoy eating pie? I never took much liking to pie until I started making them myself. Now, after baking pies, pies and more pies, to perfect my crust, I could eat pie as a staple for each and every meal. Now on to perfecting pumpkin pie, straight from the vine, just in time… Continue Reading
Let’s Be Honest…
Life as a mother is challenging to say the least. Children come as a blessing and a curse in their first breathe at life outside the womb. Responsibility of new life and family demands pounds down like icy hail on a mother and seems to let up to a light rain and eventually sunshine, the… Continue Reading
Natures’ Reminder
This past weekend I had the opportunity to venture to Bryce Canyon National Park. Where inspiring vistas, romantic hiking down through the red rock spires, and nature surrounded me at every turn. I could not help but be thankful for this little niche on God’s Earth and tangibly feel his all encompassing love for me…… Continue Reading
I am Who I am
I wrote this little ditty many years back when I was finding my way. I dedicated it to all the women in the world, and I still do. Today, I like to break it out when the pressures of life make it hard to be myself and easy to start apologizing for my inabilities. Hope… Continue Reading
Tip for Turning Green
Go bagless! Or at least plastic bagless. For a while now, I have owned six of those handy little green canvas bags you see hanging out by the grocery check out. I keep them in my truck so they are readily available for any store outing that may arise. With a family of five I’m… Continue Reading
Ever Had One?
It was one of those days. The baby woke up cranky and earlier then expected, eliminating my shower time. My Husband was sitting somewhere on campus in his early morning class with our only car parked in student parking. Full diaper boxes usually stored under the crib had miraculously disappeared like a thief in the… Continue Reading