I’m So Hungry
Being “hungry” took on a new meaning for me recently. I have a wonderful devotion book that comes with daily scriptures and a great, practical message to back them up. I also listen to the “Bible in One Year” scriptures from my phone app. I guess I’m an overachiever because I don’t want to miss…
The Frog & the Pressure Cooker
I just dozed a minute in my cozy chair (I promise you — that chair is a sedative!), and I awoke suddenly because I heard: “No pressure!” At first I wondered what that meant, because I sure don’t, any longer, see my life as pressured. But then I heard it as a clarion call to…
What Difference Does a Hamburger Make?
My oncology nurse friend is all about bringing sunshine into the world. What a joy it must be for her patients who face a riveting cancer diagnosis. Her bright light intersects their darkness with hope. In addition to her nursing job, she is also a volunteer at a charitable organization that is truly a “back-up…
A Value-Added Life is an Empowered Life
My daughter is the director and founder of a faith-based, non-profit organization called EMwomen (Empowering Women) that exists to embrace, educate, equip and empower women and girls who have been impacted by some of life’s greatest challenges. Many of these gals have come from lives of abuse, homelessness, addiction, abortion, and hopelessness. Now, they are…
What I Learned From an Escape Room
Last week a group of us from my community headed out for a fun-filled day that started with going to the “Countdown 2 Escape” here in Frisco. It is an Escape Room adventure where you go into one room and through a series of opening up boxes, drawers, and closets to find riddles, puzzles and…
It’s My Birthday. I Can Cry Happy Tears if I Want To.
Sweet time with my Frisco family yesterday at a great restaurant and then to see the new “Overcomer” movie. I was totally on that bandwagon of celebrating me. This is my life — the only one that was meant for me. Alexia asked “Nana, how does it feel to be younger than the Great Depression?…
What Wattage is Your Light?
Let’s sing it together….one more time! “This little light of mine…I’m gonna’ let it shine!” What a great old song that we learned when we were kids. “This Little Light of Mine” is a gospel song that was written for children in the 1920s by Harry Loes. So, obviously, its message was as needed in…
Lord, I’m Letting Go and Letting You Control
I’m single so I don’t have so much “need to control” any more. I have my say with the remote control, choosing what to eat and when to eat it, when to wake up and when to go to bed. But, I’ve noticed some control issues far too many times. God noticed and I feel…
Life is a Balancing Act
I hold these photos so dear to my heart. It was eleven years ago and one of those times when my husband and I were visiting our son and family in Seattle. We made the most of every minute that we were there. Imagination ran rampant and Papa and Nana joined in with vigor and…
Where Two Shall Agree….
I’m in my cozy chair all set for my morning devotion and prayer time and I remember the sweetest surprise last weekend. My dear friends, Charles and Sheila Michie, invited several mutual friends over for a pot luck meal. Little did I realize it was a set-up to celebrate my birthday (26th). I was so…