Posted in Family on July 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We were toying around with my son Jonathan’s very fancy digital camera today (with his permission!) and took these two pictures. Jonathan will be 21 in August and just moved back in with our family while he goes back to school. But that’s not Jonathan in the pictures. He was at work. That’s Sam with [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Encouragement on July 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I was in a coffee shop this morning and noticed they were selling coffee mugs. These were more like coffee mixing bowls. They were huge. Three normal 8 oz. cups would have fit in these mugs. Everywhere around us, we see the push for more, more, more. Bigger, bigger, bigger. In the food realm, restaurants [...]
Posted in Comfort, Encouragement on July 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I woke up this Lord’s Day with this gospel song going through my mind. I’ve been singing it all morning. If you are facing trials and anxiety in your life today, find shelter under the Lord’s heavenly wings. It is not in our own faith that we have confidence. Our hope and trust is in [...]
Posted in Encouragement on July 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Life can be difficult. The Lord told us in His Word that it would be that way for those who follow Him. But there are times when the Lord lets us see something that encourages us. He gives us just a glimpse of His handiwork and it gives us hope to go on in our [...]
Posted in Comfort on July 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
On the way to the library, we go down a road that takes us past a small farm where sheep are often grazing in the field. My children always laugh because I invariably start singing Handel’s, “And Sheep May Safely Graze”. Every time. I can’t help it. This spring the little lambs, one was black, [...]
Posted in Comfort on July 16, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I remember a terrible storm that went through South Texas where I lived. I lived an hour and a half from South Padre Island in the Gulf and we had caught the edge of a hurricane. Seeing the rain blowing sideways and the trees bending nearly in half was quite a sight. My tiny house [...]
Posted in Family on July 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Brown paper packages tied up with string are not part of my “favorite things” list. Everybody has their own set of things that bring a smile and a little lift of pleasure. Here are a few of mine:
1. Finding a new copy of Reminisce Magazine in my mailbox. A cup of chamomile tea up in [...]
Posted in Family, Uncategorized on July 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My Grandpa, Oscar C. Eliason, passed away when I was 17, but I remember him as though it was only yesterday. When I think of him, I smell woodsmoke from his kitchen stove that helped warm his rural Minnesota home on 40 degree below zero days, and I can see his plaid flannel shirt that [...]
Posted in Welcome on July 15, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It is one of those God-ordained ironies that I have ended up with such a noisy life. I love solitude. I love cleanliness, quiet and peace. I need it to be able to think. But the Lord gave me five children to raise and my adult life has been spent with little fingerprints on my [...]
