One Year

Blogging for Flashlight just turned a corner and is now into its second year.  When I started posting last year, after attending the Writer’s Conference at Mt. Hermon, I had no idea whether I could do it, if I would enjoy it, or if I could be consistent. But God...

Deliberate Trust

Sometimes it is better not to reinvent the wheel.  I subscribe to an online devotional for women. In my email this morning I received this weeks’ offering which echoed my thoughts to so well that I want to share a portion of it with you: “My thoughts are...

Attitude Adjustment

I chuckle to myself when I hear my daughter tell one of the grandgirlies that she needs an “attitude adjustment.” I know that this little one has probably been whining and finally stepped on the last nerve of her mother and consequences are just ahead....

Tomorrow? Next Week?

If you knew that next week would be your final week on earth, what would you do? My life, before this year, has been relatively untouched by death. God has blessed me with good health along with those closest to me. However, in the last ten months, Mark has been to...

Good Friends

Good friends visiting from California left today and I wandered around the house for several hours feeling rather empty. I know that time and distance will not change ourfriendship because even with many switchbacks along our paths, it has endured for 38 years. They...