by Melinda | Jan 1, 2016 | About Me, Be the Light, Claim to Fame, God in the Everyday, It's Not About Me, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Living Low, Living the God Life, Uncategorized
This is the 52nd time I’ve awakened on a New Year’s Day, and it occurs to me that I’m standing at the precipice of 52 fresh weeks before I awaken, Lord willing, on another one. I’m certain, based on personal experience, that they will...
by Melinda | Nov 25, 2015 | Be the Light, Claim to Fame
I happen to be an Adele fan. I’m in really good company, as she’s a worldwide superstar, and now, with the release of her highly anticipated album “25,” she is everywhere, again, to all her fans’ delight. With technology, the very...
by Melinda | Nov 10, 2014 | All in the Family, Claim to Fame, In the Eye of the Beholder, Legacy
I’ve been reading a small diary, found at my aunt’s house as we’ve been cleaning it out. Written by my great aunt, whom I had heard of but knew little about, it was her account of a trip she took in 1923 with her sister, my grandmother. Her name was...
by Melinda | Aug 6, 2014 | Claim to Fame, God in the Everyday, It's Not About Me, Legacy, Living Low
I believe it was last year when I first heard it. I was blown completely away. Then I heard it again, today, and I bet I’ve played it 10 times. If you’re also a child of the 70’s, it’ll strike a chord in you, too. But really? It should...
by Melinda | Jun 24, 2014 | All Together Now, Claim to Fame, Eyes Wide Open, Get Real, In the Eye of the Beholder, Temptation, Truth, Uncategorized
This weekend, while working in the yard, I was listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. “The Sound of Silence” came on and I was hit, afresh, by the lyric, remembering, only after it was over, that I’d written about it before....
by Melinda | May 31, 2014 | Claim to Fame, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Life on the Rock, Listen and Learn, Trust and Obey
Have you ever considered how many times a day you Google something? Yesterday, I needed to know a substitution for a cooking ingredient, so I Googled it. After a while, I was planting some flowers that didn’t have an info stick stuck in the soil. Were...
