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It’s been a season… A long winter. A long trimester. Spring is here.* Sometime very soon, a new baby will be here.** I am tempted to complain, and all too often give in to that fleshly temptation- I am a work in progress. I’m tired. I’m achy. I’m yearning for sunshine so badly. Despite my negative natural [...]
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I think it was Thursday. The sun didn’t exactly shine bright, but the overcast haziness outside was lighter for a while. There were shadows beneath our trees, shadows that indicate light. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to lift my spirits for an afternoon. It was my light at the end of the tunnel. The [...]
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Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice. Pray. Give thanks. 3 more words that I long to live. I try, and I wonder why it doesn’t come naturally. It should, I think to myself, and yet I [...]
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“The most important business that you do is prayer.” my pastor, yesterday Gloom and doom are not just on the horizon these days. Seems more like they’re knocking at the back door, and maybe the front door, at the same time. Friends out of work… I thank the Lord, though not often enough, that Mr. Extraordinary has [...]
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Another Monday here, which means another weekend past… We had a rough couple days there with last week’s blood sugar testing, well, I did anyway. The headache I ended up with after my blood sugar dropped was rather unpleasant. It was one of those “I’ll be in bed for the afternoon if anyone needs me” [...]
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Intentional. Joyful. Grace-filled. Those are my words to focus on this year. I want to be more intentional, to live life more than be lived, to examine what my priorities really are and to live a life in line with what’s truly important. I want to be more joyful. I’ve battled the depression monster for [...]
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It’s been cold outside. To tell you the truth, it’s been rather cold inside our home too. We awoke, once again, to 60 degrees in the house this morning, the fire having died out in the night, and the sub-zero temps outside creeping in around drafty windows and doors. Nothing gives me the urge to [...]
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Today, it’s all about Him. It’s about who He is and what He has done. It’s about what that means. Mr. Extraordinary’s grandfather passed away very recently. He was older and had lived a full life, but death is still hard, death is still sad, even when we know it’s coming. But death is not [...]
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