In Pursuit of Excellence

by Melinda | Mar 3, 2009 | God in the Everyday, God Stories, Living the God Life, Random Musings, Texas, Travel, Working Out Faith

As mentioned in my last post, I just enjoyed a wonderful trip to the Sacramento area. Spring has sprung over there, as the trees were in bloom everywhere you looked.I kept saying, over and over, “God does SUCH good work!”Melissa wrote a wonderful post on...

A Little Faith Restoration

by Melinda | Feb 23, 2009 | God in the Everyday, God Stories, Living the God Life, Random Musings, Texas, Travel, Working Out Faith

I’ve been cleaning out some clutter this weekend. I started with my guest room closet, which was appalling, and ended with my kitchen desk drawers, which were forever getting hung on things too large to have been put there in the first place. Among the errant...

My Hope is Built on Nothing Less

by Melinda | Feb 3, 2009 | God in the Everyday, God Stories, Living the God Life, Working Out Faith

Hope.It’s a word that’s been popping up around me lately like so much hyacinth in spring. “Hope against hope”…”I’m about to give up hope”…”All we can do is hope”…”It’s my last...

Wash Day

by Melinda | Jan 1, 2009 | God in the Everyday

I’ll let you in on a little secret: I love doing laundry. I know. Don’t hate me. What is considered never-ending and the most mundane of tasks by the general population, I find deeply satisfying. I love the sight of fresh-smelling, neatly folded clothes...

Jesus Is There

by Melinda | Dec 29, 2008 | Christmas, God in the Everyday, Living the God Life

There are a few different types of “home”, I’ve decided.There is, of course, the home where you live most all of your days. The place where life happens, from the mundane to the marvelous, with the people you love most in the world. Then, there is...

Meli Kalikimaka…

by Melinda | Dec 10, 2008 | Christmas, God in the Everyday

…is the thing to say on a bright Floridian Christmas day! That’s the Gulf-coast greeting that we send to you from the land where palm trees sway!” Okay, so I took a little poetic license with that Bing Crosby tune, but it fits, I tell ya, it fits!It...