Life Lessons

It’s an amazing thing to watch bubbles float on the breeze!  To see the wind catch them … and carry them high up into the brilliant blue sky … where they sparkle with color as the sunlight catches…

Alas, I have come to the end of the jar of peanut butter.  This means the opening of a new jar of peanut butter … and the resulting effort required to stir the layer of oil (which has…

I have two blue antique Mason jars which once belonged to my Grandmother.  They are special to me, and I love to use them as vases.  I was noticing, just the other day, the little imperfections and air…

After spending a long hot day outside in dusty fields, traversing dirt roads along with 5,000 other people, that right there will most certainly give you dirty feet!  Here is a photo of our feet once we made…

It had been a long day!  The large touring busses which had transported us all over to the filming site stood ready to transport us back to the stadium where our cars were parked.  Logistically speaking, there had…

(Today’s “5K Take-away” was written by my hubby, Matt.)  Sitting on the ground, surrounded by 5K extras, one thing dramatically struck me … and I turned to my wife and asked: “If I lived in that era, would…

It was late afternoon.  Hubby and I had been huddled underneath our shade umbrellas in the blazing sun for several hours.  The ground was getting hard and uncomfortable … we were getting stiff and cramped.  From the big…

I am not a physically strong person.  Because my stamina is low, I am easily drained by large crowds of people.  So there I was, seated on a mat in the middle of a field, participating as an…

“For this next shot the Disciples will be going into the crowd to distribute the bread and fish.”  Excitement stirs through the crowd!  We’re going to get to see the Disciples up close!  They’re coming into the crowd! …

Hubby and I wound up near the back of the crowd.  In a sea of 5,000 people we just didn’t have the strength to jostle in amongst the masses in order to get a spot closer to the…