by Melinda | Apr 29, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Healing Hearts, Living the God Life, Random Musings, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
Maintenance. We maintain a lot of things in this life, don’t we? Cars, homes, appliances, pets, health, appearance, relationships, and the list goes on. Mainly, it’s the things in our lives we value that find us taking the extra steps needed to keep...
by Melinda | Apr 28, 2013 | God Stories, Healing Hearts, Home on the Range, Reaching Out, Relationship, Thankfulness, The Glory of Friends, Women's Ministry, Working Out Faith
We are planting a vegetable garden. Or, I guess I should say we are trying to plant one. The beds were beautifully prepared by my husband, and I got them seeded, and we had moved on to figuring out what kind of fence we were going to put around it, as we knew...
by Melinda | Apr 27, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Living the God Life, Marriage, My Man, Thankfulness, Travel, Working Out Faith
I heard something yesterday that took me back to when, years ago (and before we moved to Iowa), Kevin and I used to take a “Let’s Find Winter” trip every January. We’d go to snowy places and do snowy things and have some good, snowy fun. By...
by Melinda | Apr 26, 2013 | Living Low, Living the God Life, My Politics, Reaching Out, Relationship, Texas, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
Dallas-Fort Worth is home to me. I was born here, lived here until I was 35, did some moving around in different states for 11 years, then happily came back to let my toes become reacquainted with the sweet Texas soil. When I heard the Bushes (of the W....
by Melinda | Apr 24, 2013 | Blogging, Healing Hearts, In the Eye of the Beholder, Living the God Life, Social Media, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about labels. It was about how we see other people, and how we often only get to know them within the confines of whatever label they happen to carry. It was interesting to me that, very soon after, this “Real Beauty...
by Melinda | Apr 23, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Healing Hearts, Home on the Range, Living Low, Living the God Life, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
I was schlepping my laundry basket from my closet to the washer yesterday, trying to get it all in one trip and failing pretty miserably, leaving a trail of socks and underwear in my wake. It’s been a Monday ritual for the last almost-thirty years, with...
