Life Lessons

It was exactly one week ago that hubby and I hosted a birthday party at our home for our daughter’s best friend.   The party got me thinking how Heaven is going to be the greatest party of all…

Every Sunday morning hubby and I go to Sunday morning worship services at our local church here in town.   Then afterwards, we come home and we have “second church” watching our favorite online pastor.   Such was the case…

Once again it is bitterly cold this morning – 28*F.    Everything is frosty and icy outside.   I can’t help but think of the pipes in the workshop which froze a few years ago.   That year our temperatures had…

Yesterday evening hubby and I hosted a Birthday party at our home for our daughter’s best friend!   All day yesterday everything was frosty-white outside and bitterly cold.   Whenever our front porch steps frost over they become treacherously slippery!  …

Once again today has been socked in with dense, heavy thick fog.   Here you can see the view out my windows as I sat to have lunch:   Each evening this week hubby has come home from work, and…

All of nature operates according to seasons:  seasons of planting, seasons of new life emerging, seasons of growth, seasons of waiting, seasons of fruitfulness/harvest, seasons of rest.   So too life itself operates according to seasons.   In our life…

I am not much of a coffee drinker, but I do really enjoy a nice cup of tea each morning.   All teas are not equal though.   I’ve had my fair share of tea experiences which, upon taking the…

I was just now flipping through my journal, and I came across the quote:   “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass;  it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”   It’s raining today.    Yesterday I wrote about…

Today I choose  …  to follow you, God.   Today I choose  …  to say “Yes” to what you instruct me to do.   Today I choose  …  to trust.  Today I choose  …  to submit.   Today I choose  … …