Simple Yet Powerful!

Dear Readers, Thanksgiving is quickly approaching. Over the next few weeks we will be talking about various facets of Thanksgiving. I trust what God has written will bless, challenge and encourage you.   Simple Yet Powerful! Thank you.These are two very simple,...

Far from Perfect

It was far from perfect. Growing up there, it was years before I realized that “perfect” is downright impossible.  The years have been a foe, in that it has taken too many of them to bring me to the place where I treasure what I had. Why is it, that as children, we...

Happily Ever After

I am an eternal optimist! Life is always going to end well! I love stories like that of Cinderella; even though it looked as if she would be forever doomed to live with her wicked step-mother, her moment of chance came when she was invited to the Royal Ball and met...

Tough yet Tender

We arrived early and the waiting room was full. This was a return visit; our first being six years prior. We were anxious, not knowing what the neurologist would say about the progression of Mark’s condition. I busied myself with writing and Mark read a book. Every...

Not Deserved: BUT NEEDED

Just a few weeks ago, Mark and I went to Dallas to keep our grandchildren for three days while their mommy (our younger daughter) and their daddy went to Oregon to run in a marathon relay race. While we were there, I fed them, bathed them, cleaned up after them, took...