by Melinda | Nov 4, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, Life on the Rock, Thankfulness
I’ve been a little sad about the lack of fall color in my neck of the woods this year. Last year was spectacular, but this year just hasn’t packed much of a punch. So I was surprised when I walked out this morning and this was my view out the...
by Melinda | Nov 1, 2014 | All in the Family, All Together Now, Blogging, Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, Thankfulness
I pulled up the blog this morning, noting that the last post was written on August 26th about my Aunt Mary Ellen. I smiled, finding it fitting since my intent was to write about her again this morning, my first day back after a long break. Mary Ellen met her...
by Melinda | Aug 6, 2014 | Claim to Fame, God in the Everyday, It's Not About Me, Legacy, Living Low
I believe it was last year when I first heard it. I was blown completely away. Then I heard it again, today, and I bet I’ve played it 10 times. If you’re also a child of the 70’s, it’ll strike a chord in you, too. But really? It should...
by Melinda | Jul 25, 2014 | God in the Everyday, He Knows Me, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, Life Abundant, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Work
I’m sitting in Kevin’s new office, just down the hall from his former corner office suite that waits for its new occupant. It contains some of the furniture that he used for the last four years, along with a different desk, since Kevin’s is...
by Melinda | May 27, 2014 | God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, Hope, Life on the Rock, Uncategorized, Work, Working Out Faith
We worked all day. Hard. Reclaiming cement-like, rocky ground into garden space, spreading a truckload of mulch, moving landscape rocks, and finally planting flowers. On one of my trips with the wheelbarrow to bring landscape rocks to the site where they were...
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...
