Christmas Day

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given” (Isaiah 9:6). Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Afterglow

The Lord has blessed me with a wonderful family and plunked me down in the middle of them.  Yesterday was a day of being thankful for blessings and my family ranks top, front, and center. Speaking of afterglow, a day like this could be counted as summer’s afterglow, a blending of seasons when nature is getting […]

Rain

Rain

  A small, dark cloud drew closer last night. Did I dare hope it’d gather forces? It did, bringing along with it, thunder, lightning, wind, and, most of all rain! Finally. After a long dry spell the Lord sent us rain. I don’t think there are many things more wonderful than the sound of rain […]

Do You Have a Song in Your Heart?

  Several times in the Old Testament, God commands the children of Israel to sing. In at least one instance, God told the commander of the Israelite army to put the singers out in front of the soldiers as they went into battle. I can imagine the enemy looked mean and forbidding and the last […]

Taking Hope

A new year is waiting to make its appearance tomorrow. As we look at 2025, I think an important word is “hope.” We all hope for a better year in every aspect of life. Here in the South, we can’t start the New Year without those all-important black-eyed peas.  That particular practice goes back to […]

A Lovely, Ordinary Day

My granddaughter gave me a suncatcher. It is an ordinary pink glass dragonfly with an extraordinarily long tail. At the end of that tail is a small prism. I hung the suncatcher in my window and forgot it was there. Until one day as I was going about my chores, I noticed a rainbow on […]