When I returned from Africa a few decades ago, the first thing I marveled at was all the green: green grass, trees, lots of trees! weeds even, but they were green! It was like a feast to a hungry soul! In the winter I get that same starvation for green (and other colors). The pine… Read More Day 215- Thankful for Green
This has been a good week for me of drawing closer to God. How about you? This week I also got more excited about working in the garden. After my husband and I plowed and planted a few things a few things, I knew that the maple helicopters would come down en masse. So, I… Read More Day 176- Thankful for fountains
“He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 This last month I’ve observed that with all the talk of COVID-19, the news of people dying from it, and the fears associated with that,… Read More Day 160- Thankful for sacrifice, especially Christ’s Supreme Sacrifice
Where I live, fields of corn, wheat, and soybeans are commonplace. Of course, all winter long the fields have consisted of dead stubble. It always seems kind of discouraging to me to look at those huge fields of deadness, week after week, month after month. But this morning as I drove by some of those… Read More Day 141- Thankful that God can bring new life into dead situations
How our hearts begin to harden When from thanks we start to stray. So to have a tender heart, dear Lord, Help me give you thanks each day! — Loved by the King of kings I’m not sure if I remember to be truly grateful every single day. I remember to thank God for the… Read More 365 Days of Thanks
A while back my teenage son and I made liver and onions together. We used the cast iron skillet on top of the stove to cook it in. After the food was very much all gone, I scraped the pan and gave the scrapings to our always-begging-to-be-fed beagle/terrier mix, Lilly.Then I left the pan sitting… Read More More Doggie Lessons
Thank You, Lord, that this is the day that You have made. I will rejoice and be glad in it! Lord, You didn’t attach any conditions to these verses. You didn’t say that there are some days that You didn’t make, and you didn’t say we don’t have to rejoice on days when everything seems… Read More Worship with me #18
 A couple of years ago we bought a couple of minnows to put in our 10-gallon fish tank. One of them began to bully the other to the point of apparently forbidding her to eat. He would chase her away from the food when we fed them, then he would gather the food he couldn’t… Read More Healing through God’s Word
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