Yesterday Brad and I finished reading the book of Jeremiah together—–all 52 chapters reading one chapter a day. Jeremiah preached his heart out for 40 years the message God had given him that if the children of Israel did not turn away from their evil ways and turn back to Him they would be taken [...]

Just go with me through this past week and see the mercy of God on my family. It all started with a finger cuticle that would not get well with me doctoring on it myself for several weeks. I finally went to the family doc and he said it was an infected cuticle and put [...]

Wow!! Please rejoice with Brad and me that after two years of hard work, Neal has received his Master’s Degree!! Who’d a thunk it back in his younger years when he didn’t have anything for school?! Not us and surely not him either. The degree is in the area of his passion of Health and [...]

Hi Everyone, on this January 1, 2012, In 2010 I had benefitted from the mercies of God so much that I wanted to give back and giving myself away was my theme for 2011. Reflecting back over the year, I hope I have done that to a degree with this blog as I have tried [...]

This will be a very different and joyous Christmas for our family with the addition of our first grandchild, Jagur John. He will be 3 months old on Saturday. Where did the time go?! Anyway, we can’t wait to hug and kiss and pinch that little guy. Uncle Neal can hardly wait. On Skype the [...]

Drawing and painting has been a deisre of my heart for a long time. In June of 2002 on a Thursday I mentioned to my husband that I really wanted to learn to paint. On Friday we were taking our friend, Rex, out to celebrate his retirment and I said that to him also. He [...]

Most of my adult life I have had these dreams where I cannot find the way out of a place and I try all the different ways and nothing works and I wake up with nothing resolved. I am not versed in dream interpretation but I’ve had enough of these that I see they usually [...]

These past days, Brad and I have been starting our day with each other and the Lord on our back patio at 6:30 each morning. Our chairs are surrounded with beautiful roses having another go and the Rudebeckia sunflowers holding their sweet faces to the sun. A lovely way to start the day and a [...]

As I’ve shared with you already, our church couples group is studying the disciple John himself and getting to know him and getting to see Jesus and events through his eyes and putting ourselves in these events also and seeing them with fresh eyes and getting fresh insights. I am loving this journey!! This week [...]

At the moment, I am in need of sitting in God’s glory. It’s been an interesting and hard week with my mom. Her legs don’t hold her up anymore and she needs more and more help so my brother and I are working on what will help her most. This morning she fell doing something [...]