by Melinda | Aug 6, 2013 | He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Heart talk, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
I’ve been up since 3:00 am. Not because I wanted to be, mind you, but I just woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep. This used to be a big problem for me, and, thankfully, I’ve made some changes and it’s happening much less frequently....
by Melinda | Aug 3, 2013 | All in the Family, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Home on the Range, Marriage, Thankfulness
The other night, Kevin and I were working under the trees where his sister will marry today. I stood on a big, flat stone where she will stand, with her daughter, looking at her groom, and said, “This is a literal step in the right direction for your...
by Melinda | Jul 20, 2013 | He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Heart talk, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
Last night we had an annual business celebration. From July through June, every year, our agents work hard to achieve levels of sales success, and in mid-July we have a party for those who made it. It’s always a good time. One of our agents recently...
by Melinda | Jul 18, 2013 | Healing Hearts, Home on the Range, Living Low, Relationship, Thankfulness
That title sounds like I’m going to talk about a popular “end-times” book series. I’m not. Instead, I’m going to talk about a bird that just perched on the back of our lounge chair by the pool. You see, I sat down to write about...
by Melinda | Jul 8, 2013 | Healing Hearts, Living the God Life, Thankfulness
“Jesus wept.” It was in my mind when I awoke this morning, that simple, two-word sentence from scripture. I hadn’t recently read it, or even thought about it, but it was there. I’m also not sad, not mourning, not bereft of anything. But...
by Melinda | Jul 6, 2013 | God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Thankfulness
We were in the car yesterday, when a tune I hadn’t heard in ages came on the radio. Roberta Flack. Killing Me Softly. I probably would’ve just hummed along, thinking about something else, if I didn’t have a personal history with this song. It...
