I wake up early….usually anywhere between 3:45 and 5:00 am. Early o’clock in the morning I like to call it. Not because I have a bad dream. Or hear something. Or am particularly worried about anything. Sometimes I have to pee, but that’s probably TMI. And rarely does it ever involve falling back asleep. How do people do that anyway? ...
Fire is so fascinating to me. I can stare at it forever in the fire pit while we’re roasting s’mores and catching up on life with the family. It’s mesmerizing. It keeps us warm. It cooks our food. (Did I mention s’mores? Yummy!) It can be used as a power source. In days gone by, they even used it to ...
I opened my Bible to Deuteronomy 34 today. I love this part of the Word. LOVE. Moses is at the end of his life. He’d just spoken to the people of Israel for the last time in his lifetime. He’d been serving them for 40 years, and it was almost over. It was time to walk into the Promised Land ...
Not to sound old or anything….but back in the day when I was little, we had things like flannelgraphs and Colorforms. Who remembers those? Oh, and paper dolls. Can’t forget the paper dolls. We had to use our imaginations. Boy, those were the days! We used the flannelgraphs at church and on a good day, when they were brand new ...
I don’t think anyone will be surprised to find out I’m more than a few days behind in my daily Bible reading. Seems to happen quite a bit lately. And when one gets behind, it can be easy to turn it more into something to check off a to-do list than something I’m reading to get to know God. When ...