Did that catch your attention?  Not to worry.  No need to call 911.  I managed to escape.  Barely. It’s not the first time he’s tried to do me in.  Two weeks ago, it was a 6-mile hike.  I was out of sorts the whole next day. Today he wanted to ride bikes.  Me?  Not feelin’ […]

Good News:  The check for auction items arrived 3 days after the sale.  Very organized auctioneers. Bad News:  Despite the comment that “you have really good stuff,” the amount failed expectations and hopes.  The cost was higher than the reward. Good News:  It covers property taxes.  Just a house.  Just land. Bad News:  I miss […]

About 30 years ago, when we were living in Roswell, GA, a friend invited me to hear a Bible teacher speak at a church over in Marietta. That’s when I was introduced to Kay Arthur who was teaching on the book of Genesis. What a great birth into the world of inductive study! That fall […]

Many of us have experienced them. Great saints experienced them, sometimes for years on end. Those dark nights of the soul when we feel totally numb to the things of God. When the curtain is drawn and we can’t see Him. We can’t hear Him. We can’t sense His presence. We feel as if He […]

My yearning for simplicity began years ago. Searching for it has been an elusive journey along quiet roads and through tangled brush. Grasping it has been like trying to capture a butterfly with bare hands. Just when I think I’ve almost got it, it flutters away. A year ago I realized I was exhausted, overwhelmed, […]

Life was so simple.I remember our first home in 1971–a small brick house with pink trim, rented from a man whose deceased dad had had a perennial green thumb. Something was always blooming in the yard. There were 2 small bedrooms–one with a door that opened to the backyard. We had a small living room, […]

I’ve been on “sabbatical” for the last year in order to declutter my mind, my body, my spirit, and my surroundings. With years of accumulated “stuff” as a result of traveling over several bumpy roads, there wasn’t too much tread left on my tires. I was wearing out.I’m still a work in progress, but several […]

It looked like any ordinary brown bird as it pecked its away across our front yard. Then it snapped to attention, beak pointed toward the sky, totally still, focused on something unseen. The bird’s bright yellow breast stamped with the bold black V made me gasp.The image of that meadowlark has stayed with me for […]

Do you behold God in chocolate? I do. Who else could have created something so heavenly? Yesterday was a little heavy, so tonight I’m serving up something on the lighter side. I’m going to share something I wrote a couple years ago for Bridging Boundaries, the online publication for OA-AHDI, Online Association of the Association […]