Care Package of Hope!
I received a care package in the mail yesterday! It was from a very dear precious someone in Idaho! She didn't even know it ... but I was really needing a "dose of hope"!Inside this beautiful "Care Package…
What is Hope?
Yesterday’s blog post pondered the topic: What is Faith? I want to delve a little deeper into that thought today - and ponder how faith and hope are inextricably interconnected and intertwined. Yesterday, we stood outside the sheer…
He didn’t leave me like I was …
I mentioned in yesterday's blog post how I sat down yesterday morning to have some quiet time with Jesus, and God introduced me to a brand-new worship song! The words were very meaningful to me, because they led…
November joys … Blooms out of brokenness!
My clerodendrum is blooming!! I’ve had it two full years, and not once has it ever bloomed. And now … right after I just about lost it completely … it’s blooming! How is that possible?!? The clerodendrum cutting…
Is there a reason to have hope?
Behind our house is a deep ravine. Hubby and I have only ever been down into the ravine once. When our forestry professor came for our site visit a couple of weeks ago and we told him this,…
The hope of all the ends of the earth
Last week I was reading Psalm 65 during my morning quiet time with God. The psalm states: “By awesome deeds You answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the…
God doesn’t want me to give up hope.
Hubby and I were at Home Depot recently … and lo and behold … the seeds are for sale! A big display … full of hundreds of different kinds of seeds! It was very exciting! Let’s get a…
God sees what we don’t see; and helps us plan.
Prior to having a wood-burning fireplace heater installed, our home was heated solely using propane-gas. We have a large propane-gas storage tank out near the woodshed. Whenever our tank would get down to 20%, we would call the…
The hope of new life!
My family celebrated Christmas as it freeze-rained all day! When we went out later that afternoon, a ¼” layer of ice completely coated everything! The skylights of the house were completely coated in a thick layer of ice. …
Dormant … but not dead
Every summer the grass in the Pacific Northwest goes dormant … as you can see from the background photo. Our 9-10 months of continual constant rainy drizzle finally ceases (this year it didn’t cease until the end of…