Hope and Peace Amidst the Chaos
I sure love Christmas and the holiday season! I keep wanting to write fun posts about “Christmasy” things, but lately I have been drawn to write about the more “serious” side of things, like finding peace in this busy, festive season. I’ll try to be brief, but in this morning’s quiet time I gleaned some […]
Now
I’ve always been one to look forward to things. It’s so easy for me to think, plan, anticipate, and sometimes even worry over the future. I also think a lot about the past. I like to remember, even re-live good moments, and sometimes find myself dwelling on hard ones. But living in the moment??? It’s […]
Count it All Joy
Today’s post is written for the link-up at Five Minute Friday on the prompt, “joy“. ***** Oh, how I wish to just write a simple, happy post about Christmas joy today! But the first phrase that came to me as I started to think about this prompt is the scripture that reads, “count it all […]
11 Things I Learned in October & November 2016
I’m so happy and privileged to include this post with Emily Freeman’s What We Learned link-up. Since she is now posting this quarterly and I usually try to post each month, in order to get the full story please be sure to check out my 10 Things I Learned in September 2016 post as […]
Surrender to Christmas
Today’s post is written for the link-up at Five Minute Friday, where you can enjoy a variety of short, mostly unedited writings on the prompt of, “surrender”, by a wonderful group of bloggers. ***** Today we write on the prompt, “surrender”. My first thoughts are very serious, deep and even “holy” when I think of […]
One Way I Celebrate Thanksgiving All Year Long
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States. #################################################################################################### HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! #################################################################################################### For my Canadian friends and family who celebrated Thanksgiving over a month ago, this is the season in which they have been leisurely getting ready for Christmas for weeks already. Meanwhile, we in the US are entering that crazy, […]
Learning to Enjoy God’s Will
Today’s post is written for Five Minute Friday on the prompt, “Enjoy”. ***** When I was a child, I often felt that to simply enjoy life was not the “holy” thing to do. In my efforts to please God, I often thought if it wasn’t hard I must not really doing the right thing. I […]
To Those Who Are Hurting
I see so many around me hurting. Some of them I know, and some are still strangers, but they’re out there. We’ve just come through a tumultuous election and it seems the discord, dislike and distrust are still rampant. There are many with fears and those who seem to have lost hope. But I […]
Journey
Today’s post is written for the Five Minute Friday link-up on the prompt, “journey”. ***** Life is made of so many journeys. Some are happy and joy-filled and some are difficult and laced with pain. The journey of a small embryo as he/she grows into a full-size baby. That painful journey from the safety and darkness […]
Eat
This post is written for the Five Minute Friday link-up, where different bloggers will briefly write their thoughts about the prompt, “eat”. ***** “Mom! What is there to eat?” Sound familiar? Well, what is there? I’ve been thinking a lot about what I eat lately, especially since I’m in the midst of a seven-day fitness/meal […]