by Melinda | Jun 18, 2014 | Healing Hearts, Hope, Life Abundant, Love Free, Lover of My Soul, Trust, Truth, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
I’m reading The Fault in our Stars, by John Green. Literally, the very first page found me highlighting a quote (from what I now understand to be a fictional book) because of two words. It goes like this: As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced...
by Melinda | Jun 1, 2014 | Contentedness, His Words, Life Abundant, Thankfulness
Every Sunday around here is for His words instead of mine. Sometimes you just feel happy! Well, there are scriptures for that. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. ~ Philippians 4:4 ESV Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask,...
by Melinda | May 28, 2014 | In the Eye of the Beholder, It's Not About Me, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, Living Low
I am sitting here listening to the birds. I’ve got a momma bird on the front porch with four babies in the nest, and a new bird has set up housekeeping on the back porch in the nest that just recently was vacated by four other babies. There have been...
by Melinda | May 24, 2014 | All in the Family, Contentedness, God Stories, Legacy, Life Abundant, Relationship, Trust, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
About five years ago, I wrote a piece about my mother-in-law. When a young woman faces the altar, she hopes against hope that she will have a good relationship with her husband’s mother, instead of the stereotypical alternative. However, I knew, going in,...
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...
by Melinda | May 21, 2014 | All Together Now, Free Indeed, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Hope, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, Lover of My Soul, Trust and Obey, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
It had been sitting there for a couple of weeks, at least, maybe a month. The stack of paper that needed to be sorted through and filed hadn’t been shrinking, as I had hoped, but was growing instead. Finally, it was no longer giving me a small wave, or...
