(This is the final post in my Holy Week thoughts as we follow Jesus through the week before His crucifixion and resurrection. We see how Jesus loved to the end. Part 1 is HERE. Part 2 is HERE.) JESUS LOVED AND CONTINUED TEACHING […]
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Murmurs of Peace Reach My Heart
What are murmurs of peace, and how can we hear them throughout our days? We each may have different experiences that wake up certain memories of times we felt calm and peaceful. But the connecting cord that binds us is the Holy Spirit, who Jesus […]
Mystery and Wonder of Life: Take Time To Pause and Savor
Mystery is the prompt word for Day 7 of the #FiveMinuteFriday #10daywritingchallenge. Rhymezone gives as one of its definitions: something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained One of the first things that came to mind as I thought of the prompt was […]
Story: A Picture of Life’s Journey
I am participating in a Five Minute Friday 10 Day Writing Challenge. We can write for 5 minutes or more, but the goal is to write every day. We began on March 2, with the word TODAY, and I wrote for five minutes whatever came […]
Curiosity: Have We Forgotten its Importance?
Curiosity killed the cat. At least that’s what people told me when I was a kid. I was very curious, but I also took things literally and wondered for the life of me what the adults meant by that. Did Curiosity Really Kill the […]
Life: Finding Joy and Peace in Christ
Life is the prompt word for #FiveMinuteFriday. I’m a little late with mine, though I started it on Friday and had to put it aside. And I’m sure it took more than five minutes. But here it is. What first came to mind were the […]
Simplicity: One Word Thoughts
SIMPLICITY IS MY GOAL For many people, January is the time for setting goals for the new year. Some like to choose one word to focus on rather than set lots of goals. For the past several years, I have joined the #oneword movement […]
Day: Glimpses of My Life this New Year
For my first post of the new year, I thought I’d start with an entry for The Simple Woman’s Daybook. A lot has happened in our lives since my last daybook post. We’ve begun a new decade and my family is minus a member as […]
Finding Hope in God and a Lament
Are you feeling heavy with burdens that seem too hard to bear? Do you sometimes wish you could crawl into a hole and disappear? In this troubled world we live in, have we tried finding hope in God? FINDING HOPE IN GOD As I reading […]
Troubles: Lost, Found and God’s Provision
On this #TellAMemoryTuesday, I conclude the stories of our troubles that first week in Plainfield, New Jersey. You can find links to the first three parts at my Tell A Memory Tuesday page. Last week I was still telling about the first day that week. […]