Holiday Reflections
Well, it's come and gone. Another Christmas season has been celebrated, cards sent, goodies baked, gifts given. Did you enjoy it?...relish it? Did you CHOOSE JOY? Oh, how I hope you did! This was a quiet Christmas for us, in that we didn't travel this year. We are the ones that live away from the rest of the family, and, typically, we travel to them. However, this year we stayed home, just the four of us. We definitely missed seeing everyone, but it was special to have that much time to be our little family of four again. With both girls away at school (one out-of-state), that doesn't happen very often. I, of course, had things planned for us to do. And we did them. We played games and...
Merry Christmas!!
When God Says No
This has been an interesting couple of weeks. I wrote about a friend of mine, and the "mountain" she was facing, not long ago. Well, the "mountain" was, in fact, a prison sentence, and two weeks ago today, though countless prayers were lifted up asking for probation over prison, God said "no". My friend was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary.What does it mean when God says "no"? I've talked with several friends who are having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that they prayed, in deep faith, believing with everything they had in them that God would spare our friend from prison and spare her family from being separated. Couldn't He have done it? Isn't He big enough?...
Logan's Calf
"Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in." Mark 10:13 The Message
The Gratitude Campaign
It's never been easier to say "thanks".