Windows and Nosegays
Windows are wonderful contraptions, protecting us from annoying insects and uncomfortable temperatures, and yet allowing us a bit of an opening to something beyond our own self-made environments. When I…
Written Words Have Always Fascinated Me
Written words have always fascinated me. I’ve been putting marks on paper since I first picked up that wooden pencil I could hardly get my fingers around, held it so…
Doors and Book Covers
For those of you who’ve been reading along with me, you know I wrote about labels a couple of weeks ago. I was labeled the petite, puny girl with asthma…
God-Alerts
Suppose with me for just a moment – Someone walks right up to you and says, “You have thirty seconds to think, and then in five words or less, sum…
Labels
I’ve always had an aversion to labels. Perhaps it was because I’ve been labeled a few times. I was the short, brainy girl who couldn’t throw a ball or run.…
Cleaner Than a Whistle
Email – the marvels and madness – nonetheless, it has changed my life or at least a good hour or more of my time each day. According to an email…
Fly Me to the Moon
“My Lord, What a Morning!” came to my mind as I looked out on the morning sky early today. It seems that God has an expansive canvas and an infinite pallet,…
Prayer Alerts
The greatest gifts I have received in my life were not the ones delivered in shiny boxes with velvet bows, but they came with faces and hands and voices and…
Just Mop It
Have you ever put off a bad job? Or just delayed it as long as you could? Or maybe you’ve even put off something you wanted to do far too…
Dirty Floors
My honking Egyptian geese are still with me, honking early and sometimes late, and continually leaving me not-so-little “gifts” on the porch and sidewalk. How lovely of them! When I…