With Great Joy

I'm just back from an early-morning walk with my mom and the sky is clear and blue.  And Mark has the day off.  I'm thankful.  I ha...

" Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. ...

I had an hour in a coffee shop all by myself the other day and I used it to begin a list in my journal in regards to school for next year.  ...

Here's a list of what we're planting (or tending*) this spring: sunflowers sweet peas     strawberries * ~also planting an addi...

Yesterday I was reading in Exodus- where Moses is asking Pharaoh to let the Israelites go, and Pharoah says no again and again.  Or he says ...

Thankful, today, for our backyard flock of chickens.  I really like our chickens.  We've been keeping chickens for seven years now, an...

I love Compassion International. Recently a woman at our church shared with me about her visit to a Compassion project on a recent trip sh...