Friends Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. It is a season full of red hearts and pink ribbon, sappy cards and chocolate kisses, red roses and sparkling diamonds. We offer these gifts as tokens of our affection, but does our love have the depth and breadth it should? +++ Love must be sincere... Romans … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Diamond
Tag: marriage
Monday Motivation: Courage
Friends Sharing a little story from my childhood archives about my sainted mother. Join me in wishing her a “Happy Birthday!” later this week. Mom, consider this jaunt down memory lane an early birthday present! +++ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I … Continue reading Monday Motivation: Courage
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
Monday Motivation: That Peter
Friends On this Memorial Day, let us remember the countless men and women of the Armed Services who gave life and limb to keep our nation free. May we honor their sacrifice with our grateful hearts. Today, I offer a follow up reflection on the power of Pentecost. May you and I, today, step out … Continue reading Monday Motivation: That Peter
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 