Renae’s baptism memories~ We made cookie bars and homemade ice cream and invited everyone to come to the park afterward. We made….. Sugar Cookie Squares Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Peanut Butter Rice Krispies M & M Blondies and Brownies Napkins and bowls~ {We didn’t make these.} 😉 Renae’s favorite songbook and the books that the […]
Because I Love the Field of Milo Outside My Windows
My husband mentioned to me that the sunshine in the early morning looked pretty on the milo from over at the farm. I ventured over one morning so I could snap some photos. I could have so much fun just wandering here and there taking pictures, but there are things like housekeeping and bookkeeping and […]
I’m Thankful For So Many Simple Things {And Not So Simple Too}
So, I started a gratitude journal a couple of years ago and I wrote about it recently. There really is just so much to be thankful for ! From air conditioning to toothbrushes to end tables and extension cords. Electricity and sticky buns, iced tea or hot coffee. New socks and favorite, old books! Here’s […]
Worry and Wind and the One Who Walks on Water
I could see the worry lines around his eyes. Invisible, yet so visible, the weight of discouragement and decisions upon his shoulders. The silhouette of a farmer against a backdrop of swirling, blowing dustclouds. The howling wind full of dirt, rising and lifting. Our own dirty thirties. Pieces of Oklahoma and Colorado and western Kansas […]
God Doesn’t Need Super Glue. He Just Needs Yielded. {Five Minute Friday}
Rough patches of dried super glue stuck on my fingers. It wears away slowly and picking at it doesn’t do that much good. It’s super glue, you know. It adheres quickly to pieces, patches, fragments, or fingers. The super glue squeezes out of the applicator in a small stream along the jagged edge of the […]
Blessings from Blogging
Blogging has blessed me. There are times that I think it takes a lot of time. There are times that I think “Who really cares?” There are times I question the whole internet safety and sharing. There are times I compare my blog to other blogs. {Which I honestly think is the dumbest thing ever. […]
Wherein I Think About Gratitude
One day, in past days, about two years ago or so, perhaps, I started a Gratitude Journal. I am a journaling, workbook type of person. I’ve had prayer journals through the years and I love the different, workbook-type Bible studies, I’ve worked through or been part of. I know this style is not at all […]
Poured Out Like Wine
I thought this pitcher of grape juice looked so pretty. As I watched the juice pour in a stream into the pitcher the words of this song played into my mind and then fell from my lips in song…{although I couldn’t recall all the words. 🙂 } Would you be poured out like wine upon […]
Mary’s Ponderings and Praise
She held her newborn baby And she gazed upon His face, His little nose, His tiny ears, His cheeks her fingers traced, His thatch of hair, His baby hands, She snugged him up so tight, And noticed how the stardust, Shone around Him, ah, so bright! She wondered at the miracle, This miracle of birth, The […]
Thankful Thursday 4 ~ Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s Thanksgiving Day! Wishing you a very blessed day. I am truly thankful for the multitudes of comforts and conveniences that are in our lives. I should never complain, but I do. YET, I am so very thankful. Sometimes I can feel guilty because of all that we have, but I also think […]
Thankful Thursday 3
The God of harvest praise, With loud thanksgiving raise, Hand, hearts, and voice, The valleys laugh and sing, Forests and mountains ring, The plains their tribute bring, The streams rejoice. This song comes to mind every time we are in the fields harvesting the grains and crop. It’s so beautiful and it captures the […]
Thankful Thursday 2
Take time to be holy, Speak oft with Thy Lord, Abide in Him always, And feed on His Word. Wait thou in His presence, Submissive and meek, Forgetting in nothing His blessing to seek. William Dunn Longstaff Today I’m thankful for: the beauty in so many things around me the gleaming rays of sunshine […]
Truth Reigns! {Five Minute Friday}
John 14:15-17 “If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will […]
Thankful Thursday 1.
It’s November, and Thanksgiving and Christmas will soon be here and then by slipping away into another year. I want to grow in gratitude and grace all year and yet this time of year is a good time to even more intentionally focus on it. Because, though I want to grow, and I try, I […]
Beautiful Milo
I love how the fields of milo look in the late, late summer, turning into fall and then it is autumn with cool mornings and evenings. Milo is itchy stuff to cut and getting it cut can drag out towards the end of the year, but I think the ripening heads are so beautiful! If […]
Ordinary {Five Minute Friday}
Linking up with Lisa-Jo for Five-Minute Friday If someone asked me to describe my life in one word, I suppose there’s a chance I might say ordinary. I’ve said before here on my blog that we just do a lot of ordinary living. Yet, there are so many things I embrace about ordinary. So many […]