My Second Silver Anniversary!

No, I am not old enough to have celebrated two silver wedding anniversaries in my life! My only silver wedding anniversary has come and gone.  We are heading for thirty.  Such a fact still makes my head spin. How time flies!!!   🙂 I drove my dear husband to his first post-op appointment today. THANK YOU,

“Pulling” a Gene Kelly!

This is not a post about how to literally pull anyone — much less, Gene Kelly — from Point A to B! Or is it? I was out walking in the rain today.  What started as a fine drizzle turned into a torrential downpour before I returned home. With my giant umbrella in my hand, I

A Few “Keepers”

I was asked one of “those questions” today. A question that stopped me in my tracks and invited me to do a mental double-take. “What do you know now that you didn’t know one year ago, and what capabilities do you now have as a result?” It wasn’t long before You brought some things to mind, Lord.  Some “keepers”

UP and OUT!

I have been climbing out of a pit. How did I end up there, Lord… almost before I realized it? Plates full-to-overflowing. 2015 Endings and 2016 Beginnings. Busyness.  Laziness. Rewards.  Entitlement. Excitement.  Exhaustion. The Perfect Storm. Leaving me in The Perfect Pit. Time to climb UP and OUT! But how, Lord???  Seven Lessons learned from

Hide and Seek

Why do I hide, Lord? Where are my favorite spots? How did I come to be “IT”? Why don’t I want to seek? Who is playing the game? Why are they running? How high do I need to count? How long do I need to search? When should I give up? Who will come when I say, “All-ee

New… Everything!

January 1, 2016. Already???   Still??? The Old Year ended yesterday in a blur. The blur of exhaustion from too little sleep after too much post-surgery… everything. “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”  (Matthew 11:28) The blur of discovering a New Lifestyle.  A Lifestyle of