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JUNE 2, 2022 ON THE PORCH TINK OR RIBBIT? **Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.  Proverbs 4:23 When my brothers and I were small, we bounced around our first few years.  When we left the children’s home, the boys went with my mom and her new husband, andContinue reading “TINK OR RIBBIT??”

ON THE PORCH LIFTED HANDS **“Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven.” Lamentations 3:41 (Written 5.23.22)  This morning when I opened my computer to start typing, God exposed a place in my heart I’ve been hiding.  He asked to see my hands.  “What for?”  “What were your hands made for?” Continue reading “LIFTED HANDS”

ON THE PORCH “THAT’S POO!!” “THAT’S NOT JUST GAS, THAT’S POO!!” Tuesday night during the wind and rain, Ace, Sierra’s dog started whining softly and put his head in my lap.  Having been through the storm the night before, I thought he was anxious about the coming weather.  So, I patted his head and toldContinue reading ““THAT’S POO!””

WRITTEN 5.25.22 ON THE PORCH “THAT’S POO!!” “That’s not just gas, that’s poo!!” Tuesday night during the wind and rain, Ace, Sierra’s dog started whining softly and put his head in my lap.  Having been through the storm the night before, I thought he was anxious about the coming weather.  So, I patted his headContinue reading ““THAT’S POO!!!””

When Noah was 12 or 13 years old, I looked out the front door and caught him with binoculars pointed at the dirt road.  First, I took a picture (because things like this were typical with Noah).  Then I asked what he was doing.   “They’re spying on us, so I am spying on them.”  PlainContinue reading “SEND IN THE SPIES”

WRITTEN 5.19.22 “For me, God has filled my brokenness with his gold, and I feel Him working through me with this piece. I purposely scar each heart differently, because we are all scarred differently.” – Amber, Mywildflowerjewelry shop on Etsy (picture shown) **If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than ourContinue reading “SCARS”

Having been a firefighter for 24 years, Benny knew what to expect when we got to Jim’s after he called and said his house had burned down.  I was not prepared for the scene ahead of us when we pulled up.  I’ve never seen a home completely and utterly destroyed like his was.  Jim andContinue reading “BEAUTY IN THE ASHES”

*Written in May of 2020 – Junior went to heaven to be with Jesus and his brother Steve in January 2021 This last weekend, I sat with a friend, Junior, and we watched his brother’s memorial service online.  Steve passed away suddenly of COVID in April. Let me tell you, it was beautiful to hearContinue reading “IS MY ANTENNA UP?”

I got married the same weekend I graduated high school, so I was a young bride.  Benny worked for SPS in Levelland, and I started working a couple months later.  It took time for us to gather furniture and build our home.  For the first summer we were married we didn’t have a washer and dryer,Continue reading “VIEW FROM THE LAUNDROMAT WINDOW”

Have you ever been required to prove that you are who you say you are?  The other day I heard a podcast about a website that is for pastor wives only, so I registered for it.  I woke up this morning to an odd email waiting in my inbox.  This was part of the content: Continue reading ““YOU SAID…””