Every year holds its ups and downs, hopes and dreams, joys and disappointments, sorrows and happiness. They just do. 2018 wasn’t any different. We had many, many good, good days and we had days we were very glad to see end. Towards the end of the year, I opened my prayer journal/notebook and began a […]
Happiness Begets Gratefulness and Gratefulness Begets Happiness
I find happiness in gratefulness. This isn’t to say I’m always happy. Or always grateful. I’m not. I’m neither ALL the time nor even close to acquiring these attributes as I’d really like to. Yet. Gratefulness begets Happiness. And. Happiness begets gratefulness. They grow together casting a sweet fragrance in the pathway of everything they […]
In This House
In This House………. …there are quite often crumbs on the floors and dust in the corners. …you will find at least a few dirty dishes piled in the sink……..and sometimes a whole teetering stack! …items rest quietly on the counter waiting their return to rightful homes. …there is always dirty laundry. …often, a basket of […]
The Fabric of Our Days
Open windows and Adventure and Shrieks and Laughter. . And 7:15 a.m. with 63 degrees on the thermometer and a cool breeze. And my white robe belted around me feels snuggly good and I’m quite content to curl my hands around my coffee mug and watch from my backdoor porch. I’m mostly not-a-thrill-seeker. My adventures […]
Gratitude For Jesus and Happy Things
Three devotions I recently posted on Instagram ~ He Meets Our Needs Water-pelted soil lies damp, deep, silent. The water-runs leave furrows and marks and the dirt, now mud-clumped, shows the etched lines left by my farmer’s implement. It contrasts beautifully against the brilliant blue this Kansas sky is so good at. It shouts silently […]
In Which I Think About Special Days and Friendship
I do not claim to understand life. The living and breathing and moving of it. The heart of it and soul in it and soul in us. Mystery this. How we live in the moments and the clock tick-tocks them away faster than we can say hickory-dickory-dock and wraps them up into memory packages for […]
Praise and Promises in My Lord
I praise you Lord, for You are good. I bow in humble, grateful gratitude, You fill me up and pour me out and fill me up again-Amen. Oh, thank-you Lord, my Savior King, And Spirit-led, my heart it sings, For You ARE good, you hear my sighs, You steady me and calm my cries, My […]
Actions, Attributes and Aims That Matter
The beginning of May found us celebrating Renae and her high school graduation. Friends and family gathered with us and shared a lovely evening celebrating this milestone for Renae. The weather couldn’t have been more perfect for us and my heart is still singing grateful. We gathered in our backyard, the one with the Kansas […]
Expectant Hope
I come across these verses this week and I have to laugh a little. Psalm 38:7 “My back is filled with searing pain; and there is no health in my body.” Psalm 38:17 “For I am about to fall, and my pain is ever with me.” I pen them in my journal from @wellwateredwomen. […]
On Writing
I used to think that maybe I could only write about something once I had perfected it. I don’t think that anymore. For one thing, I’m never going to aspire to the persona of perfection I long to become. Jesus lives in me, but my human selfishness struggles in me and I won’t entirely escape […]
Mug and Teacup Exchange Spring 2018
It’s Teacup and Mug Exchange Reveal time! Yay!! Last fall I joined in on this teacup exchange for the first time. You can find my post about it right over here. I signed up again for the spring exchange and this time I chose to do the teacup exchange and the mug exchange. That means […]
Wherein I Think About Dreams and Perspective and Unicorns and Goats
“Dream Big” my Rae Dunn mug tells me as I wrap my fingers around its warmth on this April morning. 23 degrees the thermometer says. The morning sky beckons me to tiptoe onto the porch and capture it as I can. The #SimplyTuesday coloring book, laying open on my coffee table reminds me of this message, “We […]
Giveaway ~ Peanuts DVD and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day DVD
Happy Monday morning!!!! For the most part, I DO like Mondays. New week….new things to do…….schedules and routines…..{though our schedules of any sort are always very much subject to change, due to weather, work, farm and unexpected events!!!} One reason I like Mondays at this season in my life is because I am […]
Living Love Out Over and Over
L•ove is choosing O•ver and over to share life V•icariously together and find the E•xtraordinary in the everyday. L•ove is holding tight O•ver and over when life V•ents its troubles […]
Ten “Coffee Date with a Friend” Ideas
A friend is someone who knows the song to your heart and can sing it back when you’ve forgotten the words. ~ unknown My sister and I, we text back and forth soon after I return from spending time with my family at Christmas. We find ourselves challenging each other to aim for a once-month-coffee-date […]
Ten Simple Sayings I Love
Today, finds my fingers on the keys of my computer, pecking away to jot down a list of ten simple sayings I’ve acquired from here and there. They stick in my head and I love the sentiments that belong to each one. They’ve inspired, encouraged and added value and direction to my life. They’re simple. […]