It's been a long time since I've posted.....   A lot of life has happened in the last four years, mostly health issues.  I had a n...

I never realized until today, how many people I have in my life that encourage me. Sometimes I feel very alone,as I struggle to be producti...

"Obedience above all else pleases God the most." ~ Pastor Greg Laurie ~ I asked the Lord for a word for the year 2011. He gave m...

I have asked myself and God, why every time I sat down to write on my blog the words wouldn't come. I seemed empty of anything to say or...

~ Beside Still Waters ~ My husband and I have been watching a series by Pastor James MacDonald called Turning Your Trials To Gold. We set...

~ Beside Still Waters ~ "The Lord will accomplish what concerns me; Thy loving kindness, O Lord, is everlasting; Do not forsake the...

Have you ever seen a chameleon? If you look closely you can see this little guy in the picture. Chameleon's can change their color in le...

"This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunityto look only to Him, to spe...

Sitting at His feet... Taking care of my health.... Tending to my home.... Working on a quilt .... Making a whole lot of dish cloths.... An...

Where does time go? It's been so long since I have posted on my blogs. I was posting so much and then I guess I hit a wall. My husband w...

Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD! ~Psalm 27:14~ "In times of uncerta...

This is my paraphrase of a story Pastor Raul told in church yesterday. I have heard it before and this may not be word for word what he said...

"One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us ...

I was reading the other day in Genesis chapter 30 and my heart was touched by the fact that Leah so desperately wanted to be loved by Jacob,...

"God opened her eyes." Genesis 21:19 Genesis 21 is the story of Hagar and the strife between her and Abrahams's wife Sarah. H...

Praise the Lord! All my biopsies came back negative. Thank you for your prayers.

My reading this morning was in Genesis 18. Verse 14 says, "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" The Lord was reminding Abraham and...

With life changing decisions being made in our country, and days of uncertainty ahead, we can always remember and trust in the fact that God...

"Suffer the pain of change or suffer the way you are." ~ Joyce Meyers ~ Edited new thought; What I think the author of this quo...

It seems like the past few months I have been pushed from places of being comfortable to places totally out of my comfort zone. We have bee...

"And He will give you everything you need from day to day if you live for Him and make the kingdom of God your primary concern." M...

"No storm is so great, no wave is so high, no sea is so deep, no wind is so strong, that Jesus cannot either calm it or carry us throug...

"Weave the unveiling fabric of God's Word through your heart and mind. It will hold strong, even if the rest of life unravels....

" Be an encourager, a healer, one who helps restore the years the locust has eaten" ~Dr. David Jeremiah~ "I will restore to y...

"The present circumstance, which presses so hard against you (if surrendered to Christ), is the best shaped tool in the Father's ha...

I love being at home. I like to putter with different things around the house. I can putter a whole day away. I enjoy it and I feel this is ...

Holland, Michigan "If you always think the way you've always thought, You'll always feel the way you've always felt. If yo...

"No matter what the problem may be, no matter what trouble may ensnare us, there is only one path to safety." ~~~ "Life is di...

Recently in the last few months we began going with our children and grand daughters to a small church just two blocks away. It wasn't p...

"For whatever is in your heart determines what you say." Matthew 12:34 I was thinking this morning as I read this verse how we ta...

"Faith...I saw it with the eyes of my heart." Joni Eareckson Tada

Some times when I look back over 2009, I wonder what happened, that I quit doing so many things that I loved to do. I rarely blogged, I read...

Today we celebrated our 40 th wedding anniversary with our children and our four grandgirlies . We started the day going to church together...

At this end if this day 2009 will be over ushering in the new year of 2010. How did this happen? Weren't we just concerned about Y2K? So...

Winter still waters...such a place of calm. The busyness of Christmas is past and all that needs to be done now is to put the decorations a...

This is the bible study that I did during the summer. It's written by Catherine Martin who is founder and president of Quiet Time Minis...

"Nothing happens by happenstance. I am not in the hands of fate, nor am I the victim of man's whims or the devil's ploys. Ther...

I imagine most of you thought I had given up on blogging...No, I just felt empty of words to write about anything. So much was going on in, ...