Category Archives: family

Waiting…Turn Your Wait Into a Verb

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. Lamentations 3:25 ESV Over the last eight years I have spent a good portion of time in a waiting room. In 2005 my oldest son had a traumatic illness occur and thus started theRead the Rest…

Clutter Be Gone!

My hands were full of packages as I walked into my mother-in-law’s home. I stood beside the kitchen table and did a dramatic heave-ho putting them where she could see what I bought. Clara ambled over slowly, at 93 her spirit is quite amazing but her legs don’t allow her muchRead the Rest…

Cooking Up Your Legacy

     Five years ago I had a strong desire to write a family history/recipe book. Family has always been a passion of mine. The links we have to one another, the details of daily life that weave a story, the secrets that emerge and make an eyebrow rise, the strengthsRead the Rest…

A Little Glimpse of Heaven

“He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted." Job 9:10 NIV “Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body,” Garry Moore said. I couldn’t imagine being anywhere but home on Christmas Eve. With the excitement of a smallRead the Rest…

Surprise Sally

“Ask the animals, and they will teach you…In God’s hand  is the life of every creature, and the breath of all mankind.” (Job 12:7 and10) “Eating words has never given me indigestion, and I never felt discomfort in my abdomen after I chewed and swallowed,” Winston Churchill once said. IRead the Rest…