Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.    Recently I’ve been challenged with a service question.  There are so many ministries available to become involved with.  They all…

Today is the day, that day, the day where everyone gets all sappy and lovey and wait a minute… that doesn’t sound quite right does it?  Valentine’s Day is supposed to be about love.  It’s a special day singled out for loving.  Usually when I think of Valentine’s Day, I think of couples and gondolas…

Recently we were visiting with friends who have two little birds.  These feathered friends abide in a lovely cage in the school room.  When the school room door is closed, the children are free to release the beloved pets into the freedom of open space and enjoy all of their antics.  These antics include swirling,…

Do you ever feel like you’re talking to a brick wall?  Does it ever seem as though your children just keep on doing the same thing over and over again – no matter how many times you’ve thought it was dealt with? This past week, for me, seemed to be full of repetition…”Please don’t do…

Home, home on the rangeWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heardA discouraging wordAnd skies are not cloudy all day. Interesting that clear skies are linked with the lack of discouraging words.  When I think about how I feel when I’m discouraged, I could certainly link it with cloudy skies. On the other…

Psalm 131 (NIV, ©2010) Psalm 131 A song of ascents. Of David.  1 My heart is not proud, LORD,    my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters    or things too wonderful for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted myself,    I am like a weaned child with its mother;    like…

Last fall, I decided to read the Bible through in a year.  Some days I’ve missed, but overall, I am fairly consistent reading three chapters from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament each day.  I’m up to Acts in the New Testament.  The acts of the Apostles are recorded in a way…

Just the other day, we had a snow storm.  It was mighty and powerful and drove all but the excited children indoors toward the warmth and comfort of the fire.  The morning after the storm, when I looked outside, we had a winter wonderland. Everything was covered in snow.  There are a lot of trees…

This past weekend, we had the funeral for my husband’s grandmother.  Grammie was 94.  She was a single mother of four; grandmother of 10 and great grandmother of 22.  Grammie lived in a tiny little community where growing up, the racial divide between black and white was the prevailing cultural norm.  Despite the odds and…

Do you ever feel like you’re on a treadmill? or that you just keep going around and around making the same mistakes over and over again? Do you ever start out with the best of intentions and then find yourself making the same poor choices you made the last time you were in a similar…