Our World Has Stopped For You

I’m up tomorrow for a blog post.  I had a great Christmas app to share with you, but at this point it seems so very stupid.  I have an acquaintance who posted that her daughter, a friend of my daughter’s, has a brain clot, and they need to do emergency...

Thankful For Hopes Turned Into Answered Prayer

Happy Almost Thanksgiving!! My wise mom had her quiet time the other morning, and the devotion for the day encouraged the reader to write down all of her hopes of the past and the hopes for her future. She started writing down every time she had hoped for something in...

All The Good in the World

My mother-in-law and friends during their 18-state excursion, at a stop in Bar Harbor, Maine. My mother-in-law is a news junkie.  And a politics junkie too.   She spends a lot of time listening to the round-the-clock cable news cycle, and she loves to discuss and...

When a Detour is the Best Path Forward

I got to spend a few days enjoying the mountains of Colorado last week.  A little hiking, a little running, a little reading, a little writing and lots of just soaking up the sun and the scenery.  During walks or hikes I love taking photographs along the way.  When I...

Rejection Turned Into A Revelation

When you look back at how things fall into place – things you could not have not arranged in one thousand years – isn’t it amazing?  You can clearly see the hand of God and Him working out everything in a way you could not possibly have imagined....

Walking with God As The Person He Created Me To Be

                                    Last year we wanted our daughter to switch schools, and that is the last thing in the world she wanted to do.  So, with a little prodding and a new puppy, we finally convinced her. (Oh, just call it what it was – bribery.)  None of...