I do not have to tell you that the theme of gifts is profuse around the holiday season.  If you are anything like me you have  list of people you need to find, purchase and wrap gifts for.  There’s family members, immediate and extended, perhaps a few friends.  Maybe you have gifts for teachers and […]

I’ll get to it tomorrow.  I just don’t have the energy to do it today.  Yuck, I can not deal with that today. I am the queen of excuses and of putting things off.  Especially the hard things, the uncertain things and the things I’ve never done before.  The things I can avoid doing today. […]

As I sit down to write this morning, let me tell you what I hear. The dryer is tumbling.  Mondays are laundry days for me.  I smile as I think to myself, yeah laundry is in progress!  You’ll be reading this on Tuesday, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the laundry will be finished […]

“We always thank God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers.  We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ” 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 “I thank my God every time I remember you.  In […]

“Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone” Colossians 4:6 Right now I am reading through Paul’s letters.  I am moving through them rather slowly so I can really savor them and meditate on them.  I so deeply desire that the words written […]