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 nothing like...

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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. Depending on...

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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...

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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...

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Two Women and a Man

Those pesky children of Israel are at it again. In Joshua 24:24, The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God. We will obey him alone." Yet, with the death of Moses and Joshua, that same nation of Israel reverted to their old ways of disobedience and...

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Think on These Things

By your words I can see where I'm going; they throw a beam of light on my dark path. Psalm 119:105 (The Message) This has been a week of darkness and pain because of a deranged and sick person. Those close to the shooting are still reeling from its...

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