• Show Me

    December 15, 2018 I remember discovering I would much rather be shown I was loved than being told I was loved. Actions speak louder than words. Show me – don’t tell me. Some of us were talking recently, discussing our current relationship with God. This relationship today looks nothing like it did decades ago or

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  • Rising

      Psalm 119:147 I get up before the sun rises. I cry out for help.  I’ve put my hope in your word.   October 31, 2018 This month is all but gone. On October 1, I accepted a challenge in a writer’s group I belong to and committed to writing and posting on my blog for

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  • My Hope

    Romans 12:12 When you hope, be joyful. When you suffer, be patient. When you pray, be faithful. Instructions from the book of life. Life has a way of convincing us there is no way those words written a few thousand years ago could apply to our lives today. We look around at every thing we

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  • Looking Up

        Psalm 57:10-11 Great is your love. It reaches to the heavens.  Your truth reaches to the skies.   God, may you be honored above the heavens.  Let your glory be over the whole earth.  For this, I’m grateful.  I’m a cloud watcher. Maybe because growing up on a farm it was what we did.

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  • Ouch

    Ephesians 6:24 May grace be given to everyone who loves our Lord Jesus Christ with a love that will never die.  These agave plants grow plentiful on my property in Honduras. Well over six feet tall, the thorns on the end are brutally painful when they come in contact with our fragile human skin. Hurts

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  • Directional Challenges

    Hebrews 6:19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain. Every day as our feet hit the floor, we are headed somewhere to do something and will be engaged in life until our head hits the pillow that night. How

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  • Light in Dark Places

    Psalm 18:28 Lord, you keep the lamp of my life burning brightly.  You are my God. You bring light into my darkness.  I’ve shared a few pics and stories of the activities in my fall garden. The most recent – my monarch butterflies – in caterpillar adventures. Isn’t this one a beauty? My four year

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  • Wiping Tears

    Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or sadness. There will be no more crying or pain. Things are no longer the way they used to be.”  “Oh Nana! It hurts. It hurts so bad!” “Hold on little princess. Let’s look at that knee. Let

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  • From Old Comes New

        Lamentations 3:21-24 But this I call to mind,  and therefore I have hope:   The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;  his mercies never come to an end;    they are new every morning;  great is your faithfulness.   “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,  “therefore I will hope in him.”  Nothing is

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