On Monday morning I woke up feeling much better after almost two weeks of flu. Husband had left to volunteer at a food pantry so I decided to take a walk in the snowy woods behind our house. It was before eight o’clock in the morning and I was reveling in walking alone in a winter…
Author: Grandma Grace
This Train Is Headed for Glory
This week Husband and I have had the flu. We’ve had aches, pains and fevers. Poor Husband joked about the sharp pain in his shins saying there was a rat with a rasp filing his shins! We were miserable together with sinus headaches, upset stomachs and heartburn (at least we both lost weight, yay!). My…
Makes Your Heart Sing
My father-in-law was a laborer in a cement plant. During the long night shift, he worked in tunnels under the huge rock silohs making sure they were depositing rock on the conveyor belts without getting hung up. How could this possibly be a job that fit his love of the outdoors and his alert mind that…
Perseverance
One of our daughters excelled at running track in high school. Many of her competitors had longer legs than she, but she was quicker out of the blocks and had a burning desire to win. On this particular day, she was at a district meet. As usual, she was first out of the blocks and…
Limiting
I faced the new year with a mix of hope and fear. Hope that I could figure out ways to accomplish my goals. (What are worthy goals, anyway?). And fear that I’m too old, too stuck in old ruts, too lacking in courage and resources to move past the roadblocks. Do you ever wonder why…
Afterwards There’s Cookies
On New Year’s Eve, Husband got a call from a lifelong friend. His friend’s heart was so full of gratitude and hope that he just had to tell someone. His twenty-something son had called to let him know he’d be home for New Year’s Eve. Why the rejoicing? Because other New Year’s Eves the young…