…for in Him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28 The Heavenly View Book Club recently read The Shack, by William Paul Young – I have read this book three times and each time something else jumps off the page and hits me in the heart in a profound way. The story… [Read More]
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happy anniversary Sharpshooter!
November 11, 1982 until now!
on turning sixty (6-0)!
October 14, 2010 ♫ Happy Birthday to me ♫ Today had a surreality to it. Sixty years ago today, on a Saturday, I came into the world. Backside first and folded in half, all nine pounds of me. My poor mother! In all seriousness, she almost lost her life giving birth to me and I… [Read More]
when SS is away – things happen!
September 26 The Sharpshooter left today for Fort Shenandoah and the national meet of the N-SSA. So funny to watch him get ready to load up the truck. He did make a list this time because, you see, I told him I wouldn’t meet him in Washington D.C. with his uniforms. Of course I can’t… [Read More]
body language
I am blessed with a wonderful family! On rare occasions we all get to be together in one place at one time! And, it’s not necessarily a holiday either. This summer brought such an occasion. Our granddaughter, Hannah, has spent her summers with us since she was five and one-half years old. She lives in… [Read More]
he will make me walk on my high heels!
Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor fruit be on the vine. Though the labor of the olive fail and the fields yield no food. Though the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herds in the stall…Yet I will rejoice in the Lord I will joy in the God… [Read More]
book club
This past Saturday, the Heavenly View Book Club met for its Winter book review and lunch. What a great time we had. The day was beautiful and so appreciated as we have just come out of the worst winter in my 22-year memory here in the mountains of northwestern NC. Lunch was excellent and Spring… [Read More]
how’s it going?
In July 1983 I found myself in Presbyterian Hospital Charlotte NC, by the bedside of my paternal Grandma, Emily Chamberlain. Her 80-year old life was getting ready to transfer ‘within the gates’, where she would be with her Savior, and her beloved husband, who had preceded her in death ten years prior. She looked at… [Read More]