Life Lessons

The sermon series at our church this summer has been over Psalm 23.   Each Sunday, as the congregation stands and our pastor reads Psalm 23 in its entirety, I close my eyes and recall the verse-art graphics I…

A bat recently got into our firebox.   How, I don’t know.    I thought it was a closed contained firebox, with little holes in metal tubes to let the smoke out and up the chimney.    But somehow the bat…

At the end of June, hubby and I hiked to Lake Twenty-Two with our two kids.    After climbing straight uphill for a couple of hours, we finally reach the lake and were grateful to rest along its shores.   …

The weekend of July 4th I participated in my first ever 5-K!    I struggle with chronic fatigue, and am always tired and wiped out!    But my daughter was excited about doing a 5-K and she invited hubby and…

My neighborhood is a rather quiet neighborhood.    Because of this, cars aren’t exactly careful when going around curves and corners.    It is naturally assumed that no one will be coming the other way, so the cars feel free…

Hubby went out to put the garbage in the bin and roll the bin out to the street  …  and lo and behold!  …  there was a little frog resting in the garbage bin!   How cool is that!  …

I came into the kitchen this morning to make a nice cup of tea.  But alas, my Marketspice Cinnamon Orange tea is all but gone  …  only a small smattering of tea remained in the bottom of the…

I was sitting here at my dining table just now, having lunch.  As I glanced out the window and caught sight of the bright splash of red from my Hoopes rose,  without even realizing it, the song started…

Hubby and I were picking raspberries this last Saturday and there were two little girls a few rows over and down a little ways, and they were just singing and singing!!    You know how little kids sing nonsensical…