Category: Christianity
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🎄Happy Days After Christmas🎄
“Happy Day(s) after Christmas… Merry rest of the year… Even when Christmas is over The light of the world is still here!” Matthew West
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Merry Christmas!🎁
God bless each of you with a very special, relaxing week with your friends and families! Merry, Merry Christmas!!
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One of the Best Christmas Gifts I Ever Received
I’ve never been great at answering the question, “what was the best gift you’ve ever received?” Salvation? My children? Health? …. the list is long. But when pressed this year to come up with something tangible that was actually wrapped in paper, I had to say it was a Hallmark…
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The Beginning of Advent
We all know that the higher we go, the smaller everything below appears. On a recent flight, I thought about God’s view of our physical world. Our seemingly big homes look like tiny Legos. Once the plane soars above the clouds, earthly treasures are not visible at all. We are…
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Monday Gratitude
Counting today, there are only 11 days until Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas. We have had temps in the teens and 20’s with a full blanket of snow on the ground for over a week. The winter weather makes it easy to forget about Thanksgiving and move right into Christmas. Even if…
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Baking Brings Calm. Order. Completion.
I made cookies over the weekend. Although there were plenty of tasks I “should have” done instead, I needed to do something that made me feel normal, creative… and – in the end – something was accomplished that was visible and complete. I went so far as to arrange the…
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The Power of God’s Country
God’s Country: “A place conceived of as especially favored by God; a place away from a city.” Merriam-Webster Last weekend, my husband and I flew to Virginia to see our youngest at school. She was thrilled to have us there and kept us really busy with her friends and touring…
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Monday Praise
Doth not all nature around me praise God? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Charles Spurgeon “Let all that I am praise the Lord” Psalm 103:1 Photo: Mine – Virginia mountains, October 2019
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis
One of the statements I kept on my Mama Duck About Me page for a long time was that I’m a non-fiction reader. Every now and then, I pick up a fiction novel but in the past, it was usually to preview a story before my kids read it. After…
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We Want It Now God
We want it now God. Healing for our loved ones. Not in a little while longer. It’s already been too long. They need energy for work. To earn a living. To pay the medical bills and restock the drained savings account. Energy to play with their children. They want to…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 