It’s Friday and I am joining the community hosted by Kate Motaung. For five minutes we write fast and free. The prompt is: BREATHE Go . . . For many years I taught breathing patterns for Lamaze classes. When wave after wave of contractions come, breathing patterns can help a…
Today I am joining Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday: We write fast and free, for five minutes flat. The prompt is: CONTROL To be honest I wrote my story a few days ago as #MyUnintendedJoy. I spent five, maybe ten minutes revising it for this post. The birth control…
On Friday (1/27) the March for Life will take place in Washington D.C. Every year, after the ruling on Roe v. Wade was handed down, people have marched to the Supreme Court in protest. God is the giver of life. We should support all life. Events recorded in the Bible…
Today I am joining Five Minute Friday, writing on the prompt: connect. In December my husband and I traveled to Philadelphia where we connected with the history of our country. We saw the Liberty Bell. We walked through Independence Hall where the founding fathers wrestled with the formation of a…
Instead of a New Year resolution, I have found it beneficial to choose a word to focus on. It is a spiritual practice for me. Attentive is my word for 2017. The dictionary gives this meaning: heedful, observant, paying attention. The events taking place in the world can be fearful.…
Here is a portion of the Christmas letter that I wrote on December 4th and sent out with our cards: The homes in our neighborhood are decorated for Christmas, and today we had our first snowfall. The trees sparkle with white icing. At church we sang Christmas carols and wrote…
The winter storm in Michigan was brutal. I had left early in the morning hoping to get to my mother’s nursing home before it became too bad—but it was already bad. In some places I couldn’t see the road and just followed tire tracks in the snow. I hit a…
Take time. Give God time to reveal Himself to you. Give yourself time to be silent and quiet before Him, waiting to receive through the Spirit the assurance of His presence with you, His power working in you. Take time to read His Word as in His presence; that from…
Could the book of Job be a description of God’s design for the earth following the flood? Currently I am reading The Remarkable Record of Job* by Henry Morris. Throughout the book he points out amazing insights about our world, offered in this Old Testament book of the…
Today I am joining Five Minute Friday (#FMF) where bloggers write for five minutes about one word. The prompt for today is common. So here we go. After a tumultuous and divisive election what do we as people have in common? The Bible shows us these truths. God loves us.…