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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fear

Fear

I have a set of nature-music CD’s which I really like.    They are part of a “National Parks Series” and each CD features piano/instrumental music, combined with background nature sounds from the respective National Parks:  the call of…