by Melinda | Jun 21, 2014 | Contentedness, Hope, Living Low, Thankfulness
My garden pots are in a sweet spot right now. We added quite a few new ones this year, and apparently, we chose all the right plants for all the right locations (not to mention the magical combination of pond silt and horse manure for potting soil), leaving us...
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 26, 2014 | Free Indeed, Get Real, My Country, Thankfulness
As I’ve mentioned before, Kevin and I are history buffs and find the WWII era especially fascinating. We have started watching a biopic drama mini-series specifically about the Pacific theater, based on the stories of some of the same men that 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 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...
