This is an excerpt from a post of mine over at Women Encouraged. Visit WE to read it in its entirety if you’d like! ~ May your day be blessed, friends! Struggles and challenges can cart along a whole truckload of anxiety and anxious thoughts if I allow them entry. But here’s a truth, friend: […]
What Do I Have To Offer?
What do I have to offer? The truth? This is the question I ask far too often. I don’t feel especially talented or called. I don’t have great ambitions or terrific dreams. I’m not a mover or changer. I don’t thrive in large crowds and one of my favorite things is curling up with a […]
In The Pause
I’d been a bit chilly all day, snuggled into a favorite sweatshirt. The oven warmth was welcoming as I slid pans of cinnamon-sugar coated cookies in and out. At the edge of the kitchen, the calendar beamed its brand-new April page as I’d actually remembered to turn it this morning. Sunshine played peekaboo and a southish wind sent drafts around […]
Tricked Into Treasuring Trash
I’ll spare you the more repulsive details… . . Only enough to provide a framework for the lesson Miss Jackie acted out for me as we took an evening stroll. The thermometer blinked a forty-nine degrees and the sun shone overhead. A warm hat and fuzzy gloves warded off the chilly wind as we headed […]
A Whisper of Springtime Coming
It felt worth the effort. Lifting the bulky brandy-snifter-shaped vase, with its bursting of blooms, and precariously balancing it out to the front porch steps. Its contradistinction against the curtain of gray fog represents a promise and breathes out hope. Spring IS coming. Color is coming. Baby wheat will spring to life. Birds begin their […]
The Gift of Time and a JORD Giveaway
Time is something I’m a broken record about. I continually feel the pull of it, the dash of it as it sweeps away. Each revolution around the clock, as hands circle its face. Time gives to us and time steals from us. Time keeps us on track as well as becoming lost from us. Time […]
The Wonder in Winter
Last week we were living in a fairy frostyland! It was so absolutely beautiful and breathtaking! In part, I’m sure, because I mostly was able to stay inside. 😊 . There’s something enchanting and magical about hoarfrost as it gathers and grows thicker, silently and invisibly. It frosts everything with pointed beauty, a cross between […]
Ten Ways I Find Contentment
Contentment is found in…………. …delighting in the Lord! …giving grateful thanks! …trusting my God to know best. …choosing to see the beauty in every new day, every good day. …choosing Christ as my foundation. …confidence in Christ, come what may. …seeing the beauty in life, AND seeking it, even when I have to search harder. […]
Editing What Matters
We can edit until the edges are frayed. We can critique until the critics collapse. We can pinch and pull and prod trying to create a perfect pizza dough circle. We can count calories and carbs and check our Fitbit and check boxes trying to create a perfect image. We can pendulum swing from one […]
Wherein I Muse About BrainStorms
{My Definition} {With a Droll Bit of Banter} BrainStorm: | \ ˈbrān-ˌstȯrm (noun)1. A sudden tossing and whirling of everything in my brain, mixing it in a muddle. Happens unexpectedly and periodically without warning.2. Mental confusion and rattled concentration causing the brain to work in fits and starts.3. Sudden lightening flashes followed by booming, spell-binding […]
Contentment: My Focus Word For 2019
Have you chosen a Focus Word for the Year? Did you have one in 2018? Where do you find your heart led as you consider 2019? Steadfast… 2017 was the first year I locked into a focus word and felt the heartbeat of it.Steadfast was my word and the deep longing of my heart and […]
The Glory of the Plan of God
Dear, dear Father, Thank you for all your good, good gifts. Help us, Lord, in your strength to fully live into today, this moment, pulling all the joy and happiness from it and seeing it in the people you have blessed us with. May we comprehend a tiny bit more the total unexplainable gift of […]
Our Reel of Time and the Real Highlight Reel
My calendar, my planner and my phone all report to me with today’s date as Thursday, December 20. As always, I want to argue a bit and demand at least one of the trio to tell me, where the days of 2018 have marched away to. Surely we cannot find ourselves only 11 days […]
What is Your Biggest Challenge or Struggle Today?
What is your biggest challenge or struggle right now? I like to hear answers to these types of questions when people want to share, but I confess sometimes I have a question, but am unsure of my OWN answer. 😄 Or, in this case, I may find myself thinking, “Narrow it down to one thing?!” […]
The Baby in the Manger Comes for Us!
I curl in my chair, adjusting and resituating to ease the aches and pressure that are often a constant nag in my back and feet. The first Monday in December found me praying over friends and praying a wonderful December and Christmas season for them and the people they love. It’s a beautiful, wonderful time […]
Thoughts on Thursday
The air is chill, with a bite, today and I’m happy to hurry in out of this wintertime wind. The glorious light and sunshine against blue sky do their part in making up for it. As my tires hummed along pavement in the direction of home, after I’d rolled my cart around Walmart […]
Some Of The Most Beautiful Things In Life We Can’t Hold In Our Hands
Some of the most beautiful things in life are the things we can’t hold in our hands. Things like beauty and laughter and amazement and memories and golden days and the gift of time and kisses and adventures and successes and awe and accomplished tasks and salvation and wonder and delight and kind deeds and […]
