JOYOUS NOEL

If you have candles everywhere, light them, light them!  If you have strings of lights, then light them, light them!  Because I think we all need a little Joyous Noel in this season of light. Joyous Noel translates to Merry Christmas with Noel meaning Christmas in old English and French.  In French it is: Joyeux Noel.   Noel can mean … More JOYOUS NOEL

SORROW AND CELEBRATION

Sorrow and celebration can happen separately or at the same time together.  Both can happen together in the heart when we love well and live well.  For me, I’ve never really understood why when I had something wonderful happen in my life, I also was dealing with something hard or devastating too. Here is an example…….why … More SORROW AND CELEBRATION

SUNDAY REFLECTIONS

Most of us would rather be happy than sad, joyful rather than angry.  The world is awful right now, hard, angry and chaotic……. PSALM 27: 8   “MY HEART SAYS OF YOU, SEEK HIS FACE!  YOUR FACE, LORD, I WILL SEEK.” The heaviness of sin weighs us down……..let’s repent today and submit to HIS authority, then … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS

THANKFUL FOR PUDDLES

As I was walking through the park I live near, a lady was coming towards me with a stroller, a dog and her little girl who was joyfully jumping in the puddles that were left from the sprinklers.   She was jumping with such laser focus that she almost jumped into me on the sidewalk.  But … More THANKFUL FOR PUDDLES

SUNDAY REFLECTIONS

I recently read this on a TV monitor in a doctor’s office……. LIVE WELL ON YOUR JOURNEY. It struck me as if GOD were speaking to me…….that a health diagnosis is not necessarily the end of your life, but something GOD will take you through.  And I am to live it well.  So what does … More SUNDAY REFLECTIONS

A WORD TO THE WEARY

My female little puppy was recently spade.  That first night with her, I spent on the couch, but only got a couple hours of sleep.  I was physically weary the next morning.  I felt like I had a hard time functioning until I picked up GOD’S word…… ISAIAH 50: 4  “HE AWAKENS ME MORNING BY … More A WORD TO THE WEARY

SCRIBBLES TO GOD

I have never been very good at keeping a journal.  I do love to buy a pretty one and I begin in it and many times there are pages left blank because I have started in another new journal.  I do have several notebooks that I have written in.  There are blog posts recorded there, … More SCRIBBLES TO GOD