Valentine’s Day. A day for love and lovers! So the phrase goes. Smile. So DO show your love to your sweetheart and your children! How? Paul gives us wonderful challenging words on the topic! LOVE IS: “Love is patient…love is kind…” and all the long list of seemingly impossible attributes from his letter to the Corinthians! LOVE has faith and ...
Faith
Five Minute Friday: Gentle
So, on Fridays, I generally lurk around TheGypsyMama.com, reading what others say in five minutes flat, thinking if the week's topic says something to me, I MIGHT participate. Most times I don't. You see, the perfectionist in me REALLY likes my backspace button. I mean, REALLY. Without that button, there'd probably be no blog. But still, the English teacher in me likes the idea of just ...
3 Reasons the Love of God Will Change Your Life
This post requires a bit of background so I'll give it as required. It's funny, but for as long as I can remember, the song "Jesus Loves Me" has tasted like cookies (the flower-shaped ones with the hole in the middle just perfect for your pinkie finger) and smelled like the paper used to create the large pictures of Jesus used to tell Sunday School stories in years past, which ...
Notes from Nana: Influence of a Mother
I love flowers and music and God’s Word and… What do you LOVE? Years ago, with our young children, Bill and I took my parents to New Orleans to board the “Sunset Limited” in New Orleans. They rode the train to Los Angeles for a visit with my Mother’s sister in LaJolla and to attend the Pasadena Rose Parade. I’ve watched the Rose Parade on television since I was a child but never ...