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 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 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...
by Melinda | May 15, 2014 | All Together Now, Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, Get Real, God in the Everyday, Hope, Life Abundant, Listen and Learn, My Politics, Thankfulness, This Magic Moment, Trust, Truth, Working Out Faith
I have this really cool tablet, with a quote at the bottom of each page that you can tear off and tuck in a lunch box, or tie to a gift. My mom bought it for me on the sly, right when we were in the same store, and I have benefited from her sneakiness, because...
by Melinda | May 14, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, Free Indeed, Get Real, He's Bigger than Me, Healing Hearts, Hope, Life Abundant, Lover of My Soul, Relationship, Truth, Working Out Faith
Have you ever worked to get a stain out of a piece of clothing, and, thinking it was completely gone, only discovered later that it wasn’t? You know what I’m talking about. Maybe you treated a stain, pulled it out of the wash and couldn’t find...
