The 4-year-old Playroom

The 4-year-old Playroom

When my daughter was in high school, she and I volunteered together as childcare workers for our church’s MOPS program (Mothers of Preschoolers).   The room we were assigned to was the 4-year-old Playroom.   I love working with 4-year-olds.  …
May 20, 2023Posted inGrief, Life Lessons
Creating order from life’s mess

Creating order from life’s mess

My son sent me this photo for the blog  …  of pinecones all lined up in a row on the parking curbs at his apartment complex.   Obviously, the pinecones had been strewn throughout the landscape  …  and most…
May 19, 2023Posted inLife Lessons
Beauty out of chaos

Beauty out of chaos

Today’s blog post and accompanying background photo is from my daughter. Here is what she shared:   This falls (Deception Falls) I visited yesterday.   Deception Falls is usually rather docile, but when the snow melts in the mountains, it becomes…
May 18, 2023Posted inLife Lessons
What will remain?

What will remain?

This past week Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge in Olympic National Park burned to the ground.  This is so sad!  My family and I have many happy memories at the Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge!    In fact, we were just…
May 13, 2023Posted inLife Lessons
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 inLife Lessons, 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 inLife Lessons
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 inLife Lessons, 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 inLife Lessons
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 inLife Lessons
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 inLife Lessons