Life Lessons

This past January I was grating a potato for a dinner recipe when I accidentally grated my fingernail, barely missing my finger.  It has been five full months now and the fingernail still has not completely grown back…

You know those annoying tiny flying specks that you slap, and swat, and squash … here’s what they look like close-up. Horrible little creatures … but wow!  … just look at God’s creative design! No one even sees…

The original plan had been to go bike riding in the afternoon.  But the kids’ friend group decided at the last-minute to have a hangout in the afternoon.  So bike riding was moved to the morning.  I had…

I have been reading an interesting book recently entitled:  “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife” by Connie Scovill Small.  The first station where Connie’s husband, Elson, served was Channel Light … situated in the channel separating Lubec, Maine from Campobello…

One of the wonderful things about Summer is being able to have the windows open and let fresh air in.  Similarly, one of the wonderful things about our current digital age is being able to open up our…

I came across this leftover slice of tomato in the fridge.  Originally it was meant for a hamburger, but it sat forgotten in the fridge for two weeks.  Now it is growing white fuzz! Nasty!! Fruits/vegetables are meant…

Most of us grew up taking some sort of music lessons.  For me, my instrument of choice was the violin, of which I became quite fond.  I was never very good, but I did truly enjoy playing it.…

“We love because God first loved us.”   - 1 John 4:19

“Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.”   - 1 John 3:18

“Be completely humble and gentle;  be patient, bearing with one another in love.”   -Ephesians 4:2