Sometimes inspiration comes in a surprising way–when I least expect it. Now, the New Testament is inspiring in itself but some time ago, I made a discovery that I hadn’t been expecting and I was inspired to include that discovery in a mystery. Some of us stick small items of importance in our Bibles–a picture, […]
Mar 12, 2018
Trash Bag Inspiration
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As I re-read this post from last year, I thought about this picture torn from a magazine that is still on my refrigerator. She has been there a long time and she never ceases to inspire me–trash bag inspiration! This picture is on the wall of my refrigerator. It is an inspiration. I mean, just […]
Mar 11, 2018
Waiting for the Morning
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“My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning” (Psalm 130:6). Something about mornings brings hope. I believe it is related to a life force within us that rises, like the mercury in a thermometer, with each new day. As I read that verse from Psalm 130, I can imagine a […]
Dec 4, 2017
An Inner Core of Firm Resolve or The Lesson From the Avocado
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We’ve all heard, “Growing old is not for sissies.” Let me enlarge on that: “Writing is not for sissies.” Or, just about anything we want with our whole heart and have to work hard to get is not for the faint-hearted. We must have an inner core of firm resolve. Sort of like the avocado. […]
Nov 14, 2017
The God of Starting Over AGain
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When I was a little girl, lo! and these many years ago, I wrote stories. I started young. My stories probably resembled soap operas. They would go on and on, the plot would become so involved, that I had no idea how I was going to get the characters out of their muddle, so, I […]
Aug 30, 2017
Another Newly Minted Day
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Morning is here–another newly minted day, as bright and untarnished as a new penny. Night has gathered its dark robes around it and moved off, giving place to the rising sun. Hope stirs with the breeze that moves the leaves. Troubles that seemed insurmountable with darkness sink, defeated, before the glow of hope. As long […]
