Blog Journal

Spiders… I don’t know why, but today has been all about spiders. Yes, spiders. Couldn’t sleep so I finally tackled cleaning out the pantry … It was a job, put off far too long. So here I was up and at em’, ready to go, arms full of Lysol products, broom, mop, and dustpan. I…
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Sometimes life events are so distracting… overwhelming… loud… brash … in your face… we long for a bit of peace… mind whirling, swirling… jumbling thoughts falling end-over-end, caught in a spinning vortex… Thanks be to God who will lift us up, bring us truth… himself… His presence…and clarity of focus not because we now have…
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This morning just before sunrise, while walking my dog and praying… praying for a specific thing, beseeching God for his mercy, grace, favor…. I saw Him in the twilight! The Morning Star of Heaven. God is so merciful… so gracious… so loving. He answered my prayer a Prayer from the Injil

That awkward moment… when you realize you’re acting like a 5 year old because you can’t get your way… the project nixed and reputation discredited, slandered or at a minimum, marginalized… Yesterday, driving home from the airport, God brought out a mirror and the reflection looking back was not very pretty. How does one truly…
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“O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I…
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Here I sit… It’s quiet and still. Mornings with God are so precious. Hands down, it is my favorite part of the day. A friend told me that she is reading, The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer. I have had the book downloaded for awhile now, maybe a year or so and per chance…
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“Time is… too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love Time is eternity” Henry Van Dyke Have you ever marked time as you watched puff-ball clouds march across azure skies? I have always been…
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Last night there was a terrible storm… Wind swirling leaf and branch aloft… hard rain beating window glass… and visions of Texas-Oklahoma tornado’s dropping down from the churning heavens clouded my vision. Bustling about the kitchen, I threw this and that in the pot fearing the wind would knock out the power and I would…
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This has been a tough week for many people… and as a friend, I hurt with them. Actually June has been a tough month. Four co-workers unexpectedly died, an old friend lost her son in a very tragic and shocking manner. While at work, I care for families whose babies have died or will die…
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There are a lot of baby birds flying about outside the house and the bird feeder this year. The little fledglings that we have seen or more poignantly, heard are robins, field sparrows and cardinals, mostly. They fly about, despite feathers not quite put together and in that icky-chickie stage, but still insisting… no demanding,…
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