Living in the Peace Zone
I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 years old. The first thing I learned was how to read the notes on a page and associate those notes to the keys on the piano. Then I learned how to look at the music and pay attention to my fingers at the same time. That…
Do you have some quirky food favorites that remind you of someone special? I’ll never forget, as a child, spending time at my cousin’s house and her Mom, my Aunt Marie, made us Miracle Whip sandwiches (yes, just mayo and bread). I still love that and I loved my precious aunt who was a true…
I’ll never forget the day I met Elvis Presley. My young husband and I were in Memphis, TN, attending a Gospel Quartette Convention, and my husband’s piano teacher, as a child, was Joe Moscheo, who had become the piano player for the Imperials Quartette. The Imperials, at that time, were the back-up singers for Elvis,…
I have a confession to make. I LOVE chocolate so much so, that I should be a member of Chocoholics Anonymous (if there is such a group)! One of my earliest kid memories was my Mom’s chocolate gravy, and after Sunday night church, my Dad taking me to the little store next door for a…
So, I’m wrapping up our trip to Mexico by sharing about our last day that included completing what we started on the first day of Alexia’s Rite of Passage. Now it was our turn to give her our gifts of love and best wishes, as well as show her videos sent to her by friends…
So why have I posted so much about our missions trip? And, what is the big deal about going on a missions trip, or even being missions-minded? And why take children with us on a missions trip? 1) It opens our eyes to the blessings we have in our lives. 2) It opens our eyes…
Before we ever left for our missions trip, we had raised thousands of dollars for the host church that so generously guided us, but by our 4th day there — we were so in love with the children and families and the volunteers, that we just couldn’t help it…..we had to go toy shopping for…
On the night of our 3rd day of our missions trip, Staci Wallace was the keynote speaker for a beautiful church congregation. She spoke about the power and ability that we all have with Jesus living big in us. “We can ‘Be a Miracle’ — as the hands of Christ extended — to the world…
Later in the afternoon on Day 3 of our Missions Trip, we were able to be a part of the “Firefly” Program where a truck is loaded with food to serve near the School of Champions — the area where there was a city dump where the children and adults would scavenge for food or…