Someone ought to show this Christmas Cactus a calendar. This isn’t supposed to happen for another three weeks. By that time, this dear plant will be over and done for another year. Hope you all are not overwhelmed by a calendar that seems to run on high speed through this holiday season. Stop and consider the reason for the season and all that wonderful person is to you through your day-to-day lives. My books are available at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007F5H0H4
One of the many things I’m thankful for is great neighbors. I began to blow the leaves into a pile the other day so I could suck them up with my Worx Leaf Sucker. My neighbor interrupted me with, “I’m going to blow leaves in my back yard. How about I blow yours in a pile first. You go in the house for an hour or so and then you can finish this job.” Who could refuse a deal like…
For the past 60 years we have turned our back increasingly on God, beginning with the Supreme Court decision to take prayer out of schools in ’62. The other day I ran across Numbers 14:11-12a which reads: And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people spurn Me? And how long will they not believe in Me, despite all the signs which I have performed in their midst? I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them ….
This past weekend we had a women’s retreat at church. One of the break-out sessions was on interactive praying. They featured the book The Joyful Journey: Listening to Immanuel. This book explains Immanuel Journaling. Beginning with His name, write to Jesus something for which you feel grateful. Then express to Him WHY you are grateful for the things you have listed. Then, beginning with your name, sit quietly before Him and write what you hear is His response to your gratitude….
A Found Poem-Sally Jadlow Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. In an article by Larry Tomczak, a board member for Intercessors for America recently titled Do You Know You’re Being Set Up? This is his warning to America. I’ve taken the quote from the Nuremberg Trials and…
Why does that have any bearing to us here in the U.S.? It doesn’t until you couple this happening with the last book of the Bible. Revelation 9:14-16 speaks of a mounted army of 200,000,000 soldiers. There is a footnote in the Living Bible about these verses. It reads that, “In China alone, in 1961, there were an ‘estimated 200,000,000 armed and organized militiamen’ (Associated Press Release, April 24, 1964)”. Revelation 16:12 further expands the information about the Euphrates stating…
What do you do with your Halloween pumpkin? Make pumpkin bread, of course! Cut the pumpkin in half. Remove the seeds and stringy pulp with a large spoon. Place the pumpkin halves on a cookie sheet lined with aluminum foil. Bake it until a fork plunges in easily (about an hour at 350 degrees.) Let the pumpkin cool and the skin will peel off easily. Run the pumpkin meat through a blender or food processor until it’s smooth. You can…
In early August I found a few white grapes on some old grapevines and decided to make jelly. After washing the two pounds of fruit, I put them in a large pot with about a cup of water and boiled them for about 10 minutes. While they cooled a little I made a bag from muslin and added a drawstring. I attached the drawstring to the latch on the window above the sink, and let the juices drip overnight into…
A friend gave me about two bushel of apples after he showed me how he used an apple peeler. I found one on Amazon for under $30 and ordered it. The peeler was here the next day and I went to work. If you’d like to see the peeler in action, click here. The apples hadn’t been sprayed so they had to be carefully cut. The peeler sure cut down on the prep time. The machine peels, cores and cuts…
Last week I showed how to find natural gas underground. This week I want to show you how to find water with a willow stick. Take a Y branch from a weeping willow tree. Take the leaves off. Hold the top of the Y in each hand, palms up. The bottom part of the Y toward the sky. Walk around slowly in an area where you’d like a water well. The part of the stick pointed toward the sky will…