October Is My Jam Yes, it’s my birthday month. Yes, it’s the bestest weather of the entire year. Yes, I love to make soup!!! But, it’s also a hard month – ten years ago on the 27th, on a perfect October morning my mom entered her eternal rest within the gates of heaven. It is… [Read More]
Legacy
Five Minute Friday: Drive
Kate said drive. One of those tricky words. Could be verb, or some type of noun. I am no English scholar but I do know words and value them. What shall it be? Drive I have a strong one. My personal drive has changed over the course of my life. to get married and be… [Read More]
I Have Been Young and Now I Am Old
On Getting Old I was standing at the double sink of our 1950’s farmhouse in the Blue Ridge Mountain Range of the Appalachian Mountains. My gaze set on the eight blueberry bushes and the long row of heirloom white grapes – elbow deep in dish soap bubbles and my 17-year old son, my “baby,” came… [Read More]
Once Upon A Time In A Land Not Far Away
lived you… Wonderful, quirky, with hang-ups, with secrets, with insecurities, with successes, with failure, with fears…. YOU! Isn’t it the truth! I began watching some clips on TBN by Paul Young the author of The Shack, and other books. (I loved The Shack – no debate there.) He said something I haven’t been able to… [Read More]
Quietude – May 25-26, 2019
The story of Jezebel Where do I even begin? For so it was, while Jezebel massacred the prophets of the LORD…1 Kings 18.4a Jezebel was the daughter of the king of Sidon, which was a pagan country committed to the worship of Baal, including the sacrificing of young children by their parents to the god…. [Read More]
Regeneration
Frances Mary Grant Chamberlain (1852), my paternal great-grandmother. My husband is an avid and long-time fan of the British science fiction series, Dr. Who. If you are familiar you know every two years or so “the doctor” regenerates and there is a big explosion of lights and drama and, bam, a new doctor comes… [Read More]
Then Sings My Soul!
My family has an anthem. And, I never realized it until Billy Graham passed away. O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder Thy power throughout the universe displayed Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to… [Read More]
Quietude: May 28 2017
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. Hebrews 11.8 I’ve only moved five times in my lifetime but each time I knew where I was going and… [Read More]