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 25, 2014 | A Heavenly Country, All Together Now, Free Indeed, He's Bigger than Me, His Words, Life on the Rock, My Country, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Under His Wings
Every Sunday around here is for His Words instead of mine. Here are a few of them regarding patriotism, in honor of those who have and do sacrificially serve. Blessed is the country with God for God; blessed are the people he’s put in his...
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 23, 2014 | Life on the Rock, Love Free, Motherhood, My Girls, Social Media, Thankfulness, Trust and Obey, Uncategorized, Under His Wings, Working Out Faith
I began this blog in 2007, and published the post below – my very first – on almost exactly this date that year. Because all social media is being flooded with graduation pictures and the mixed-emotion-laden posts of the new empty nesters, I pulled...
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...
