by Melinda | Nov 14, 2014 | About Me, Disappointment, Free Indeed, Get Real, Hard Times, Heart talk, Listen and Learn, Love Free, Prayer, Relationship, Truth
Sometimes you receive news that makes you disappointed. Sometimes the news is just another in a series of disappointments that originate from one particular person, but it seems like a deeper blow somehow. Like the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s...
by Melinda | Nov 13, 2014 | All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, Get Real, Listen and Learn, My Country, Uncategorized
Disclaimer: To my educator friends: I ADORE you. You do what I believe is the hardest job out there (second only to parenting), and many of you are forced to teach a mandated curriculum, in a mandated way, for thankless pay. This is not written against you, but in...
by Melinda | Nov 11, 2014 | All Together Now, Free Indeed, Get Real, Legacy, Listen and Learn, Living Low, My Country, Thankfulness
Nope, this is not a post about Tolstoy. But it is Veteran’s Day, and my title is what I imagine every American veteran’s belief about their role in this life to be. They chose to risk everything in war so that we could realize everything in peace....
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 | Nov 9, 2014 | Fear, His Words, Hope, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
Every Sunday around here is for His words instead of mine. Feeling unsure about things? Today? The future? He has something to say about that. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your...
