Friends Are you a “Wizard of Oz” fan? It’s one of my all time favorite movies. I don’t have a pair of ruby red slippers, but today, I am in step with Dorothy as I click my heels together and declare, ”There’s no place like home! There’s no place like home!” +++ My father’s … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Home Sweet Home
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Monday Motivation: Home
Friends There’s no place like home. May the God of love and grace bless your home today. May His love live there always. +++ My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest. Isaiah 32:18 - NIV This week marks 32 years since the day the moving van … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Home
Monday Motivation: Thankful
Friends Sharing the images of our family time over the past couple of weeks. I am thankful for every moment of togetherness, and for God’s great grace that grants me such joy. As we move into this week of Thanksgiving, what are you thankful for? +++ So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Thankful
9/11: Nowhere To Go
Friends It has been eighteen years since that horrific day in September of 2001. This story shares my terrifying experience stranded on the streets of downtown Washington, D.C. in the midst of the terrorist attacks. May we never forget those we lost, those who survived, and the hero's and heroines that saved so many. May … Continue reading 9/11: Nowhere To Go
Monday Motivation: Coming Home
Friends On this Memorial Day, let us remember the sacrifices of our Armed Forces personnel, the brave men and women who serve to defend and protect our great nation. Let us remember the fallen, the wounded, the deployed, and the families they leave behind. +++ The Covenant of Mizpah... “May the Lord watch between you … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Coming Home
Monday Motivation: Cookies
Friends Happy Mother’s Day! To all the mothers, grandmothers and mother figures out there, we give thanks for the countless blessings you bring to our lives. I am so exceedingly grateful for the gift of a wonderful mother, a fabulous mother in law, my amazing aunts and my incredible grandmothers. Oh, what a glorious gift … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Cookies
Monday Motivation; Reunions
MM July 23 Reunions Friends Summertime in the South signals the time for family reunions. On Saturday, I attended the 119th Reunion of the Peden Family. Started in 1899, these reunions celebrate the Scots-Irish ancestry of our family on the grounds of the historic Presbyterian church established in 1786 by our family. This year, I … Continue reading Monday Motivation; Reunions
Monday Motivation: A Good Neighbor
Friends Another Monday, another day to give thanks for all our blessings!Today, I am giving thanks for a most special blessing. Tomorrow is my sweet Mama’s 80th birthday! To celebrate this special day and honor this kind, loving and all around amazing lady, I wrote a little story about her origins and a lesson we … Continue reading Monday Motivation: A Good Neighbor
Boxes
Looking back, my young life was filled with an endless series of boxes. Yes, boxes. Boxes to pack things up. Boxes to unpack. When you move 29 times, you end up with a bunch of boxes. As an Army wife in the 1960s and 70s, my mother was an expert at packing. Army life in … Continue reading Boxes
Beany and Me: Memoirs of an Army Brat
If you happened upon him in your daily travels, you would not be impressed. You would likely pass him by with only a casual glance. His faded red shirt and blue overalls are threadbare. His shoes are worn and covered with the grime of years gone by. His bright blue eyes light up his face … Continue reading Beany and Me: Memoirs of an Army Brat
Faith Beyond Sight 