by Melinda | May 22, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, Hope, Let's Eat, Life Abundant, Thankfulness, Uncategorized
Are you familiar with the morel mushroom? We weren’t until we moved to Iowa, back in ’98. We built a house on some heavily treed property, that sloped down to a creek. About this time of year, right after we’d moved in, we noticed some people...
by Melinda | May 15, 2014 | All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, Get Real, God in the Everyday, Hope, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, My Politics, Thankfulness, This Magic Moment, Trust, Truth, Working Out Faith
I have this really cool tablet, with a quote at the bottom of each page that you can tear off and tuck in a lunch box, or tie to a gift. My mom bought it for me on the sly, right when we were in the same store, and I have benefited from her sneakiness, because...
by Melinda | May 14, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Hope, Life Abundant, Lover of My Soul, Relationship, Truth, Working Out Faith
Have you ever worked to get a stain out of a piece of clothing, and, thinking it was completely gone, only discovered later that it wasn’t? You know what I’m talking about. Maybe you treated a stain, pulled it out of the wash and couldn’t find...
by Melinda | May 9, 2014 | All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, Hope, Life Abundant, Thankfulness, Time, Trust, Uncategorized
Kevin got home a little earlier yesterday than usual. Having just finished getting the kids’ stuff put away, I was actually still in the middle of laundry, and catching up on email and other work stuff, when he walked in. His face is always a welcome...
by Melinda | Apr 29, 2014 | A Heavenly Country, Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, In the Eye of the Beholder, It's Not About Me, Mimmie's Heart
This little guy has made a discovery this week. He has begun to notice the world above him. It started during this hammock session with Papa, when he was wrangled into laying down long enough to be directed to the tree above him. He lay there in wonder,...
by Melinda | Apr 26, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, In the Eye of the Beholder, Mimmie's Heart, Thankfulness, This Magic Moment
Brody is at that point where he is putting the toddle in the toddler. He’s pretty much walking everywhere, but not without a fall about every 10-12 steps, or stopping to wave his arms in a tight-rope-walker-style balance attempt. It’s adorable to...
