Guest blogger Helen Hoover, prolific writer and one of the famed Cozy Critters, shares here a devotional she has previously published in a Christian periodical. “I found mouse droppings in a kitchen drawer,” my friend, Kay, e-mailed. “I cleaned out the kitchen drawers and shelves and then had a trash bag full of stuff I hadn’t used […]
Sep 14, 2014
Sauntering into Sunday
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Do you ever wake up with so many jumbled thoughts going through your head that it’s difficult to sort them out into anything meaningful? That’s me this morning! So, bear with me while I shuffle through and list them in no particular order. Happy Birthday to The Star Spangled Banner, 200 years old today and still […]
Sep 12, 2014
The Raging Tempest
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Hurricane Matthew is a raging tempest and has wreaked death and destruction in the Caribbean. It is now pounding the southeastern shores of the United States. We received ample warning that something deadly was heading toward our coast. Many people believed and either battened down or got out of the way. I’m amazed at the ones who scoffed at […]
Sep 9, 2014
A Safe Place
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Everyone needs a safe place, or maybe more than one. In this section of the country, we all need a safe room or a cellar when tornadoes threaten. In church Sunday, we discussed the word “Sanctuary”. To me, that has always meant a safe place. Maybe that’s why we call the part of our church […]
Aug 31, 2014
A Rainbow in the Cloud
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I had started to the store for a batch of groceries. Rain fell gently and the sun shone too. “Oh,” I thought. “This is perfect weather for a rainbow!” Glancing out of my car’s window to the west, I saw it, a lovely, large rainbow that looked like it arched over the whole town, north […]
Aug 29, 2014
A New Day Dawning
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My parents were early risers. They beat the sun out of bed and by eight o’clock, they had done what I would consider a full day’s work. Of course, since they were up, they certainly expected their children to be up and going as well. When Mom fixed breakfast, she fixed it for everyone at […]
