A month ago I set an appointment with Jesus, a concrete contractor, to come on Thursday this past week. Before 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday I received a text that he was coming with his crew between eight and eight-thirty that day! I flew into full panic mode to clean out the last few items left in the garage so they could begin demolition on the garage floor. My son, Josh and I then moved on to the patio to remove the…
I’d never heard of nor ever seen okra until I met my husband. This year I saw some okra seeds and decided to plant them next to the patio. Vic grew it at our farm but it never got this tall. I wonder if I got hold of some Jack and the Beanstock seeds! When this stuff gets going you have to harvest it every day before it gets too big and tough. Growing it sure beats plunking down a bunch…
In conversation recently the subject of time and priorities came up. If I could see a time chart divided into the amount of time spent in a day, I wonder if I might be surprised at the time I waste on unimportant things. This week I focused on Colossians 2:8 which reads: See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world,…
I spent a rare cool morning for this part of the country at a blackberry patch in Louisburg, KS this past week. After two hours I had about seven quarts of berries. For my afternoon activity I canned my pick because the freezer is full. While the canned berries cooled on the counter I got a haircut. My hairdresser asked how I canned the berries. She’d never done it before. This is what I told her: “It’s simple really. While…
I recently had the opportunity to visit Sight & Sound Theatre in Branson, MO. This production company does a phenomenal job bringing this Biblical character to life. The stage production is out-of-this world. I especially enjoyed some of the lines. When Sampson has lost his strength by having his hair cut and he’s blinded by his enemies, a character says to him, “God’s grace is like hair–it just keeps growing.” I’ll not share more with you. I’ll let you discover the…
In today’s world you can seldom turn on the TV without the words Strzok or Page spilling out the speakers. As I watched his appearance before congress the other day several scriptures came to mind. Though he admitted to questioners he held animus toward Trump, he adamantly denied it affected his actions. God’s word says differently. Proverbs 23:7 in the King James Version says, “For as a man thinketh in this heart so is he.” As various questioners read…
A person a one of the places I visit each week as a chaplain gave me this recently. I don’t know who Karen Serna is, but I think her ideas are very powerful. Let me know what you think. An Expanded version of the Preamble to the US Constitution as written by Karen Serna Ps. 11:3 Declares: If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? Therefore, we the People of the United States in order to form a…
A client of mine shared a series of extraordinary websites with me a few weeks ago. I finally got around to watching them on You Tube over this past weekend. They cover Ron Wyatt’s accounts of his discovery of everything from the Red Sea crossing by Moses and the Israelites to his discovery of The Ark of the Covenant and beyond. As you probably know, once you finish one segment on You Tube, a related subject pops up. I sat…
Recently one of my blog readers wrote they wanted to see the entries I mentioned in the post “20/20 Hindsight.” This is the one I entered in the Poetry, Unrhymed, Long category. My great-grandparents settled in the Oklahoma Territory in 1889. It was too late to plant crops by the time they arrived. The next year the settlers endured a crop-killing drought and a prairie fire. The only thing left were turnips. The locals called 1890, “The Year of…
Recently I had an opportunity to visit Bass Pro Shops Big Cedar Lodge on Table Rock Lake near Branson, MO for a wedding. Through a front gate, along a winding road, then a scenic ride on a shuttle, brought us to the site of the wedding. At the end of a long underground walkway we emerged to see this magnificent site set in a reflecting pool overlooking Table Rock. To the left of The End of the Trail sculpture sat…