Life’s Barkley Marathon

Life’s Barkley Marathon

In 2017 I watched a fascinating documentary entitled:   “The Barkley Marathons:  The Race That Eats Its Young.”   The Barkley Marathon is an endurance race held in March of each year.    The race was the idea of “Lazarus Lake”…
May 12, 2023Posted inChristian Living, Poems
Why the sword?

Why the sword?

This week in the Daily Audio Bible reading, God gave me a “surprise blessing” of something I had never seen before.   (I love it when that happens!)   When it comes to the account of Jesus’s betrayal and arrest…
April 27, 2023Posted inChristian Living
God goes before me.

God goes before me.

You know how, as you are reading the Bible, something suddenly jumps off the page that you never saw before!   That happened to me last week.   In Joshua 4, where the people of Israel crossed the Jordan River…
April 20, 2023Posted inChristian Living, What is God like?
Washer “Self-Clean” Cycle

Washer “Self-Clean” Cycle

I’m losing my “window of opportunity” to transplant ferns.   As April is advancing, the new little fern fronds are beginning to appear at the base of the plants.  I’ve only got about one more week left, then the…
April 17, 2023Posted inChristian Living
Knocked down … but shining anyway

Knocked down … but shining anyway

A few months ago my son sent me this photo of the light in his apartment complex.  His comment was:  “It might be knocked down … but it’s shining anyway.”  Yesterday’s blog post was about how life is…
April 16, 2023Posted inChristian Living
Remembering

Remembering

Yesterday as I was perusing through “This Day in History” photos, I came across photos from 2021 of hubby and my son digging up and fencing our small garden plot.  What caught my attention was the small pile…
April 12, 2023Posted inChristian Living
Just stay in the cleared path

Just stay in the cleared path

I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post about hubby and me adventuring over to the Olympic Peninsula recently.  We stayed overnight in Olympic National Park and woke up the next morning to snow … a lot of snow!  We…
April 10, 2023Posted inChristian Living, Fear
Here for a reason

Here for a reason

I am currently reading a fascinating book entitled:  After the Fall, by Craig DeMartino.    The book opens with the gripping account of Craig’s fall from 100 feet up a cliff face, while rock climbing in Rocky Mountain National…
March 31, 2023Posted inChristian Living