May these lovely images and encouraging verses put a spring in your step today! Thankful for you, dear readers! Turkey photo credit Kalyn M.
Selamat Siang
The story last week about the young Asian couple’s first year in America to attend college got a lot of response from my readers. Emails and blog comments all mentioned the encouragement that story was. This week is the beginning of the back story of that young couple and how they entered our lives. “I’m just…
Advent Giving
I came across this genius idea to help children learn to share and learn to declutter at the same time. Such a simple idea, but I think you’ll agree it has merit. Every day, put a donation item in a box which you deliver to a local charity before Christmas. Your children can choose…
Angel Help
Today we returned home from a week-long trip to visit one of our dear daughters a long distance away. An added benefit to our visits with our daughter and her husband and four children is that we spend nights with lifelong friends who live in our daughter’s vicinity. As we were sitting at their table in their…
Tis the Season! Gift Ideas
We’ve been visiting one of our precious adult daughters and her family who live out of state. We got home today and jet lag has caught up with me. My brain is slipping into neutral. I’ve just completed a touching true story in the inspirational story for this week. But writing the second article just…
Toward Dawn
I wonder why we celebrate All Hallows Eve, but forget about All Hallows Day, also known as All Saints Day? Many have difficulty believing in God, but few have trouble admitting there is evil. No one can deny the darkness, the death, the war, the destruction, the loss in the world and in our personal…