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...
by Melinda | Apr 21, 2013 | All in the Family, God Stories, Healing Hearts, Home on the Range, Let's Eat, Living the God Life, Marriage, My Man, Relationship, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Working Out Faith
My husband loves coconut cake. We had an amazing taste of one recently, and were given the promise of the recipe. But, yesterday, I decided that he needed to have that cake sooner than later, so I started looking up recipes on my own. There was a veritable host...
by Melinda | Apr 19, 2013 | Reaching Out, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Working Out Faith
Yesterday, my oldest daughter was using an old knife in the tack room to open a package of meds, slipped while applying pressure, and stabbed herself in the middle of her other palm. Delightful. After a consultation with me about the date of her last tetanus...
by Melinda | Apr 18, 2013 | Living the God Life, Thankfulness, Working Out Faith
It’s amazing to me, the number of self-help books on the shelf, or I guess I should say available for download, these days. They cover every topic under the sun, from dieting to finding your center to loving the child within. To look at them as a whole,...
by Melinda | Apr 16, 2013 | God in the Everyday, Thankfulness, Uncategorized, Working Out Faith
It started yesterday with a Facebook post referencing 9/11. That sadly familiar sense of dread started washing over me as I ran to turn on the news. Not again. Please Lord, not again. However, it had happened again. Senseless violence and death. Innocent lives...
