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by Melinda | Jul 14, 2013 | All in the Family, Marriage, Relationship, Thankfulness, The Glory of Friends, Uncategorized
I stood, visually scanning the room and taking in all the faces. People were pouring in, anxious to find the birthday boy, our dear friend, Doug. I recognized family faces in the crowd, and spotted a precious teacher my kids had when they were in school with...
by Melinda | Jul 5, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Home on the Range, In the Eye of the Beholder, Marriage, Thankfulness
After some July 4th plans had fallen through at the last minute, we found ourselves with a free day and evening, and discovered we were pretty happy about it! We enjoy getting together with other people, certainly, but when presented with a free day and evening...
by Melinda | Jun 24, 2013 | All in the Family, God in the Everyday, Healing Hearts, Marriage, Thankfulness
Yesterday, I spent the entire afternoon sitting on the concrete floor of my hallway, surrounded by mounds of loose photographs. There is a bank of closets there, where a lot of things were quickly shoved as we moved in (over a year ago!), just to get them out...
by Melinda | Jun 21, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Living Low, Marriage, Thankfulness
We saw him from way across the cemetery. Sitting on ‘our’ bench, (the one adjacent to his father’s grave where Kevin proposed to me thirty-one years ago) we sat in silence, watching preparations for two internment services. One had a piper,...
by Melinda | Jun 20, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Marriage, My Man, Social Media, Texas, Thankfulness
Today, we are taking the day off. And I really mean we; not we meaning me, but we meaning us. I asked my man for a week day to take him for a little after-the-fact Father’s Day treat and he complied. So we are headed into a day of playing hooky. I...
by Melinda | Jun 10, 2013 | In the Eye of the Beholder, Living the God Life, Marriage, My Man, Relationship, Thankfulness
I woke up this morning singing a song. It was from an old movie by the same name, and all I’ve ever really known of it was the title lyric, the way it opened big and sweeping… Love is a many-splendored thing So, that’s the only part...
