The Ultimate Resolution
Oh, boy, a new year has begun. New beginnings, new promises, new commitments, new resolutions – and I have made and done them all. These are just a few: eat healthy, exercise daily, let go
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The Christmas Crunch & Slump: When Anxiety was great within me.
Although Christmas is my most favorite time of the year there was one Christmas where I found myself in a very dark place. My business was a seasonal one and I was working a second
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Cherish Memories Made & Given
Today my calendar was a scheduled dichotomy: a memorial service and a delivery of gifts to a family in need.
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Life’s Bitter Fruit
My husband, Thad grew up in the rural farm lands of Indiana where he and his older brother and sister spent wonderful times visiting their mother’s childhood farm. On one such occasion, his brother and
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The Lord Who Carries Me – Braces and All
When I was nine months old I was diagnosed with elongated tendons in my legs causing me to walk on the inside of my feet. I was placed in leg braces which I wore 24/7
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When the Healing Doesn’t Come
I would like to share a blog from Scribbles and Crumbs. She is an amazing writer who shares her grief and loss of her baby with bare pain and strong faith. She discusses the questions
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Relating to Relationships
There is an image that will stay in my heart and soul forever to remind me that we are born for relationships. Our new pastor came to our couple’s bible study recently to meet us
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An Unhallowed Christmas without Thanksgiving
This morning on my walk I saw Christmas lights adorning the trim on a house and a blow up Santa Claus already poised in a yard. Really? It’s not even Thanksgiving yet. With Halloween being
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The PB&J Sandwich
While walking the dogs I ran into a neighbor who had recently brought her mother to live with her. I asked her how she was doing. Between homeschooling her ten year old and caring for
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Ignore or Explore?
Why was I more freaked out over having a biopsy of a blemish on my scalp than I was over my lumpectomy, or my coronary artery bypass? It had been a few years since I
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A Chance Encounter
It was a chance encounter. I had brought my friend to the outpatient surgical center for a procedure. While in the waiting room a young man sat in the chair next to me. He had
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Setting Priorities
Patrick Morley has done it again, He condenses all of life’s infinite decisions and distractions to a simple idea. This is a good question for all of us to ponder and to set our priorities.
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