The Difference Between a Believer and a Pagan
I've been cleaning my files lately and ran across this unidentified clipping:What is the difference between a believer and a pagan? Portia Nelson has written an insightful piece, An Autobiography in...
View ArticlePart of the Plan
I am part of the plan of redemption. When I get up in the morning, I am a missionary: "one on one" with someone in my world. For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," put His light in my...
View ArticleK.I.S.S.
Devin knows all the rules to sound out words, but he can't read. I decided to teach him sight words so no matter what the context, he will know them when he sees them. Simple readers use them over and...
View ArticleFive Things I Want My Children to Know About God
Wouldn't it be marvelous if we had a magic pill to give our kids to insure they'd always make the right choices? We think we'd like them to absorb all of our experiences together with all our...
View ArticleListening to God in my Garden
For Christmas last year my daughter and son-in-law gave me three raised garden beds. They sit atop legs that make them about waist high for me. No more hands and knees, but I can still tend a...
View ArticleAn Ornamental Shrub?
What joy can there be in untangling stickery berry vines in the fall, pruning thorny rose bushes on a midwinter's day or coaxing a less than abundant summer garden to grow? Even an avid gardener...
View ArticleEaster, really?
I really don't like sarcasm as a means of humor. It seems, though, that I resort to sarcasm two times a year: Christmas and Easter. Easter has passed and I let it go for a week. But my goodness,...
View ArticlePruning, Disbudding, and Thinning
Pruning When I prune my roses in January, I have to realize that when I'm finished, I will have only three or four canes sticking up and pointing in different directions. The pruning looks...
View ArticleFruit Trees
Wouldn't it be fun to enjoy fruit from your tree the first year it is planted? When we landscaped our large backyard in the Bay Area, we planted four bare root fruit trees: a cherry, a golden...
View ArticleSweet Peas
It's hard to think of spring flowers when it's late fall in California. It seems I've only just cleaned up the remains of the pumpkin vines when it's time to plant sweet peas. Forcing myself to...
View ArticleThe Farmer and his Field
"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang...
View ArticleTomatoes
By the time our tomatoes were a foot tall, the leaves began to shrivel and curl up. The plants looked sick and the tomatoes were tiny. My husband said, "No self-respecting tomato worm will bother with...
View ArticleWeeds
There is a difference between making my garden look lovely, and serious weeding. Often I merely clean up the ground between plants by pulling out the little weeds or cutting them off with a hoe. The...
View ArticleGod's Wisdon re. Weeds in the Field
Jesus told His disciples this parable about weeds in the field:The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among...
View ArticlePandemic Protocol
My first thought when I heard about the plague coming around the world was, "I think this speaks of the end time. I have to look it up in Revelation."My concern rose when our son brought us two weeks...
View ArticlePandemic at Six Months
It is now six months into the Pandemic. How are people doing? Not too well I would guess by the articles in our newspaper. How are those who have Christ doing?I think better than most but I can only...
View ArticleFires and Bad Air
Today I'm back out on my patio. The air is cool, pushing 70 degrees F, and although the sky is still overcast with smoke, I can't smell it. Three days ago when I came out here, the air was brown. When...
View ArticleHolding On or Letting Go
I'm out on my patio again. The air is cool - 70 degrees F. and I don't smell smoke. It's there, but it's high and not sinking down in the heat yet.Everything is quiet except man and his machines,...
View ArticleAshes, Ashes, All Fall Down
Today my world is covered with a fine coat of ash. There are wild fires all over my state and the wind has blown the ashes into the valley where I live. Yesterday, I couldn't see the sun through the...
View ArticleWaiting for Oz
I'm out on my patio again this morning with my buttered sesame bagel and creamed coffee and my latest writing project. It's light bur the sun hasn't risen above the neighbor's trees yet. Will it be...
View ArticleThe First Rain of the Season
Our first rain! How lovely to sit in a warm house and watch the water drip off our roof. I imagine the air is getting washed, the dust is shoved to the ground and turned into mud.I hear a siren in the...
View ArticleChristmas Aftermath from 2019
I found this buried on my desk. It was written after last Christmas which was not my favorite Christmas. I had spent December running the Christmas marathon instead of looking forward to the...
View ArticleCovid-19 Vaccinations
The Bible says that there was a pool in Jerusalem called Bethesda. It had five porches and in those porches lay a great number of sick folk, some blind, some crippled, some paralyzed. There was a...
View ArticleThou Shalt Not Gather nor Sing
What were the rules made against churches during the pandemic? First, I think it was OK to gather, but not to sing. Then, I think it was only a certain number of people could be inside the church...
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