This week’s fruit of the Spirit that I’m studying has been “gentleness”. As I was getting ready to open the workbook, and imagining how Beth Moore might approach this fruit, I was feeling a little relieved. I mean, week after week, she keeps teaching things that convict me. I don’t THINK she’s been trying to …
Walking…But Not By Sight: a Devotional Post Why I Went Walking in the Dark We’ve had an issue here at our house that has caused us (me) problems. We live in the Boonies. We have an electric fence that our dogs have been trained to stay inside. The fence wire (which is an underground wire) …
Anybody remember tho old song Frank Sinatra did called “Love and Marriage”? In case you don’t, but would like to listen to it, here is a link, with some sweet little eye candy thrown in for good measure: clips of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman from the movie, “Indiscreet”. And, if you’re not in the …
My Father. I have been thinking a lot about the radicalness of Jesus calling God “Father” and “My Father”, thanks to a series of lessons that our pastor at church as been teaching on our identity in Christ. My identity in Christ is that I am forever in covenant with God, forever the child of …
No, really. Who says so? I may have just discovered evidence to the contrary. Here’s how it came about: On Friday, I went to the women’s group that I attend each week, and listened to one of the ladies tell her story. She hails from Bogata, Columbia, and her life is a living testimony to …
We took this picture in remembrance of Charlie’s Angels. I regret that one of my angel friends had already gone home before this picture was taken. But I thought I would throw in this picture, just for fun, on a blog post that is actually all about food. I remember my vacations by their meals. …
I know I haven’t been blogging much, but if I don’t talk about this, I think I’m going to blow up. I’ve been pretty low, lately. Pretty much in a funk. But the Lord has really GOOD hearing, and can even hear you when you’re lying face down in a wagon wheel rut. Which works …
OK, I wanna start out by saying that in today’s post, I will not be talking about this Abba: I know this will be a load off the mind of several of you who have lived through the disco era. Now, if the real, unvarnished truth be told, I actually liked several of their songs, …
This is the first post I ever wrote on how to roast coffee beans at home. If you’d like to see the new improved post, that contains a video, as well, here’s a link to that post. Enough of the hiatus! It’s time to shake off my winter doldrums, pour me a steamin’ cuppa Joe, …
As the year draws to a close, I like to take a few moments to think back over what’s happened during the past year, and as I was doing that the other day, I had my blog to help me out! What a great tool! My highs, my lows, my calamaties, my triumphs, all are …
I’ve reached a little landmark and just wanted you to know about it. This year, my “little engine that could” blog has had over 10,00 views. It matters not in the least that about 5,000 of those were done by me, checking to see if anyone was actually coming to read what I had written. …
Raspberry Shortbread Cookies are the cookies that won me the title of Cookie Contest Queen. And you’ll find, at the bottom of this post, the recipe for the amazing Raspberry Shortbread Cookie: it’s the cookie my family demands, year after year. An Embarrassing Story Involving These Christmas Cookies I can’t believe I haven’t told …
Now I KNOW y’all think I am talking about my Big Bison, and in point of fact, with a title like this one, I should be! There is no sexier man alive than my gorgeous hunk of a husband, and if you don’t share my opinion: well, good! More for me!!! But, since lately I …
I’m still reading the book TrueFaced, written by Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol, and John Lynch. And, I’m still sharing concepts and illustrations that come directly from that book. This is not original stuff of my own. You should buy the book and read it. Why am I doing this? Writing it helps me to further …
If you have any history whatsoever of growing up in church, you may have sung a hymn that I also sang in church as a child, whose original lyrics have fallen out of favor. In fact, they are so politically incorrect that some hymnbooks have changed them. The hymn to which I am referring is …