Are you passionate about a subject that is a hot topic? If it’s a topic that you disagree with, your blood begins to boil, your cheeks blush with color, you sit on the edge of your seat and you begin to voice what comes from within. If it’s a topic that you agree with, excitement … Read More
I love having friends. It’s so nice to have someone to laugh with, to cry with, to share with and to love. A friend is someone who is attached to another by affection or esteem. We use terminology like “She is my best friend,” or we might say, “What kind of a friend are they?” … Read More
We love having people over to our home for fellowship. Many times it’s family. I love having our family over; not because it’s easy but because of the investment. When our grown kids come over I don’t try to impress them. I clean the house so the little kids, better known as my Cute Kids, … Read More
Do you ever talk to yourself? I plead guilty. I really don’t like to admit it because when I was young I remember my mom talking to herself and I said that I would never do that. And, here I am, all grown up and I find myself talking to myself. Sometimes I say good … Read More
Oftentimes kids like the toy of their friend much better than the one they have so they trade toys. Sometimes kids trade lunches in the lunchroom at school. It just seems that their friend has a better toy or lunch than they do. Sometimes adults feel the same way. The trade of an outfit, a … Read More
Isaiah 35:10 – “And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart (where?), down in my heart (where?), down in my … Read More
For years my husband and I slept on a waterbed. It was the most awesome thing. We absolutely loved the full wave and we slept so well with the bed literally molding to our form. I remember the night we got in to bed and realized that the covers were wet. We had no idea … Read More
I love Christmas! Growing up, I loved to wake up on Christmas morning to the smell of the gas heater and peek in the living room to see if “Santa” had come during the night. Sure enough, he had come and delivered bunches of presents wrapped in red Santa paper. I loved that paper. There … Read More
I have an ongoing project in our attic; it is reorganizing the keepsake boxes from each of our children. Each child has a different color plastic bin in which I am transferring their special belongings for storage. As I go through the boxes, my mind takes me so many places. A trip, an afternoon, an … Read More
What am I going to do about this situation? Where do I turn? Is there anyone who can help me? What is going to happen to me? Situations arise daily. We often don’t know what to do or where to turn. We seek counseling, think about it nonstop, and we worry. We worry about how … Read More
