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 | Mar 5, 2014 | All Together Now, Home on the Range, Living Low, Marriage, My Man, Thankfulness
We’ve started doing something new around here. We have two occasional chairs that are tucked into a recessed bookcase in our living room. They are the kind of chairs that typically only get used when we have a roomful of people, but we both love them....
by Melinda | Feb 28, 2014 | He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, Living the God Life, My Man, Thankfulness
See this picture? It’s one of my favorites. In fact, I’m looking at it right now, blown up and wrapped on canvas, along with a group of other old and new family photos that hang on my den wall. The girls used to love playing “horsey”...
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 11, 2014 | All Together Now, Home on the Range, Hope, Thankfulness, Trust
I’m looking out to a white pool deck and white-dusted lounge chairs beyond. Snow and ice. Again. In Texas. TEXAS. We (and by we, I mean all of us, collectively, regardless of where we live, unless there are palm trees involved and then maybe you can apply...