This is my first blog in over a year. Life has been a bit crazy in our household and it’s time to start over. I have allowed life circumstances to silence me in both my personal journaling and in my writing as a whole. Typically, this might not be a…
Being Transparent
Best friends are the best! You get to experience life with a special person who knows you in and out. Both good and bad times are spent together and you love each other through thick and thin. Life with a best friend is truly a blessing. There is nothing more…
I hear so much about how everyone is glad to have 2020 over and how they’re done with the year. Yes, this year has been long, but I still can’t believe it’s over. I feel like we lived in a murky vacuum of time and as much as I know…
Whew! It’s been a long two months…a long two months of people dying, a long two months of watching funerals on the screen and not in person, a long two months hearing about sickness, and a long two months trying to make things normal when we all know they’re far…
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.2 Corinthians 4:8-10 NASB Why is…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I feel and trying to figure out how to solve life’s issues right now. I’ve come up with nothing. I have no solution, I can’t fix my problems or your problems. Something seems wrong about my not being able to make things…
The end of May has traditionally been a harder time than normal for me. It’s the end of school for starters. I loved school growing up and I remember crying most last days of school. Yes, I continued to play school over the summer and read lots of books, but…
While visiting Vermont on our RV road trip, we went to the Trapp Family Lodge. We listened to the guide tell the story of the real life of Maria von Trapp and was told the differences and similarities of the real life versus the movie. I must admit that I’ve…
Last week we talked about the the village at the Henry Ford Museum and how Henry Ford moved the houses of certain people who made a big impact on our world by their choices. I mentioned how impressed I was that Henry Ford had the insight to do this while…
We went to the Henry Ford Museum last week. It was not anything like I expected it to be. I expected old cars and, well, that’s really all I expected. What I experienced was so much more than old cars. My family and I explored both the village and the…