If Nature is tired of being taken for granted and is trying to be noticed, she has succeeded. This morning, the temperature hovers around 38; lightning cuts across the dark sky; thunder roars and threatens, and yet more rain sluices from the heavens. How much rain? I don’t know. One report yesterday said that 7.32 […]
Dec 27, 2015
Rainy Reverie
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Rainy. Soggy. Drippy. Wet. Sloshy. Rain fell all night and is still at it. Plus, yesterday was a day of rain. A sad story from Texas: eight were killed in Dallas by a tornado! And part of Oklahoma is under a snow or wintry mix watch. I’m excited about the new addition to my blog. […]
Dec 26, 2015
Tucking the Year Away
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Christmas Eve services at Matt and Dawn’s church, dinner afterward, opening gifts, gift opening and dinner at my house on Christmas, it was a blessed, peaceful, special time and I was grateful. The most important part of it all was being together and celebrating the birth of our Lord. We finished lighting the Advent candles yesterday. Dawn […]
Dec 25, 2015
Merry Christmas!
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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6). Merry Christmas!
Dec 24, 2015
In the Darkness of a Stable
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As I sit at my computer on Christmas Eve, enjoying a cup of coffee and listening to the wind blow through the trees, I think of people who are waking up to pain and grief this morning, maybe because of yesterday’s tornadoes, maybe because of illness or death and I wonder how we can have […]
Dec 23, 2015
The Noise of the Storm
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This morning, a thunderstorm popped, roared, and pounded the house. Nemo was pretty nervous. Putting his harness on him seemed to help, sort of like the thunder shirts I see advertised. He followed me around, silently asking for reassurance. He would not leave my side. So, I patted him and told him everything would be fine. It […]
