by Melinda | Mar 8, 2014 | A Heavenly Country, All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, Hope, It's Not About Me, Life Abundant, Living Low, Living the God Life
It’s not often I wake up with Elton John singing away in my head. Not that I don’t like Elton, because I heart much of his old stuff from my youth, but I don’t recall it ever being his tunes whose melodies lure me into consciousness. (This is...
by Melinda | Mar 7, 2014 | About Me, All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, Home on the Range, Hope, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, Trust
When I opened my eyes this morning, I blinked them closed and then open again, trying to make sense of what I was seeing. It looked different in our room. The morning light that pours through the big windows seemed a different quality. I rolled over and was...
by Melinda | Feb 25, 2014 | And We Wait, Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, Hope, In the Eye of the Beholder, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Listen and Learn, Living the God Life, Lover of My Soul, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
On the heels of writing yesterday’s post about waiting, I received an email. It was from our attorney, regarding a response from the IRS on our 501(c)3. For those of you who don’t know (and those who do, who may have been wondering), we moved out to...
by Melinda | Feb 18, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, Get Real, Heart talk, Home on the Range, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Listen and Learn, Thankfulness
When we drove in, Sunday night, from our long drive home from Iowa, we saw our barn cat (and rodent-killer extraordinaire), Miloh’s, eyes glowing in the headlights. He was up by the house, in the flower bed, and seemed intent on what he was doing. We...
by Melinda | Feb 10, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, He's Bigger than Me, It's a Dog's Life, Life Abundant, Life on the Rock, Trust
Our dog, Riley, has always been a couch dog. For our entire marriage, none of our dogs were allowed on the furniture. They were all big dogs, ranging from Doberman and Boxer, to Labrador and Golden Retrievers, and all well-trained on the niceties of living in a...
by Melinda | Feb 8, 2014 | Dream Scape, Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, Home on the Range, In the Eye of the Beholder, Living the God Life, My Man, Uncategorized
I had a dream last night. First, let me tell you about an issue we’ve been facing since we’ve moved out here. You know all those glorious windows across the back of our house? The ones with the spectacular views? They are in every room, but in the...