When We Don’t Get What We Pray For

We’ve had so many undeniable answers to our prayers lately.  God provided a car that met our needs and our budget,  (Sold the RV we lived in for a year while we built our house, then bought the car for that exact amount to the penny.)  A man we didn’t know from our church did…

Harvest

This week Husband’s sister drove their elderly parents to our home for a visit.  This was my in-laws’ first and probably only visit to our newly completed house.  You see, they are in their late eighties and the car trip of 4.5 hours was grueling for them.  On top of that, they didn’t sleep well…

Diggin’ It

Many of you have followed our house building adventure for the past year plus.  You’ve heard me mention, ok, complain about the piles of dirt outside our windows.  Read here and Here  After almost a year of waiting, we realized that our original excavator wasn’t going to be able to come back.  I had been telling the…

The Little Things

        “Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things . . . I am tempted to think . . . there are no little things.”  author and advertising executive Bruce Barton “Little hinges swing big doors.”  W. Clement Stone       Eight years ago we were sitting at…

5 Ways to Kick a Bad Mood

Lately, I’ve had to do battle with a sour mood.  You know the feeling.  Little and big things just aren’t going as well as expected.  Discouragement raises its nasty head, doubts take a bite out of your resolve, that technology you need to master eludes your old brain, so many things to be done, but…

Reunion

Have you ever been doing something when time freezes and you sense a spiritual dimension?  I had that experience the day before yesterday.  Husband and I had driven to a large city in another state to meet with several dear friends we hadn’t seen in a year and a half.  We had met them eight…