Messy Life, Ordered God

I live on the Great Plains of North America. No, we don’t get a lot of visitors to look at the wheat fields each fall. No one comes to see the dust clouds at harvest. But it’s what I’ve got. Wheat fields, some bush. A few lakes in the area. More fields. I can wave… Continue reading Living on the Prairie

I’m a shoe girl. Can’t be helped. I’m convinced it’s genetic. My grandma worked at a local thrift store and for her payment for volunteering, she was allowed to take items home, here and there. Inevitably, she always chose shoes. Shoes complete an outfit (like the runners I wore at my wedding). They make a… Continue reading 33 New Shoes

I know it’s only fall, but New Years is coming. It’s a time when people re-evaluate what their life looks like. Not a bad idea… Many people make new commitments to eating right, exercising and self-improvement. 2019 Statistics From Discovering Healthy Habits 7% of survey participants stuck to all their resolutions in 2019, while 19% kept some… Continue reading 32 I wanna be a Recabite

I was talking to Jesus. He interrupted me with a vision. As I watched, I saw me, running to Him to give him a hug. Then it was over… The Back Story God says a lot about fighting, fortresses and general protection. Isaiah 54:17 17     no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,    and you shall… Continue reading 30 Hugs as a Weapon

We have a purple martin bird. Quite by accident, really… Here’s the story: The baby bird took a nose dive out of his nest early in life. The human that owned the property put baby bird back in the nest but found him on the ground the next day again. Clearly, he wanted to move… Continue reading 29 Crush His Head

There is a little girl (4 yrs old) that has come to visit me. She’s a darling and loves music, but can’t hear it accurately… and can’t match the pitch… and it’s super cute. To start with, she’ll play a note on the piano and slide up and down the scale to try to match… Continue reading The Joy of Tuneless Songs

There is a parent that I know (ahem…) that in the routine of putting the children to bed would say, “Fee Fi Fo Fum, if you’re in my bed, I’ll whack your bum…” and inevitably, the children would run to the parent’s bed (not their own) and there would be several extra child-sized lumps in… Continue reading 27 Fee Fi Fo Fum…

Yes. A Play structure. I just bought another one. If anyone knows me, they already know that I OWN a place structure of industrial-sized proportions. Why do I need another one, you may ask… Good question. I asked it myself. It all started when my husband sent me on a mission to find a slide… Continue reading 26 Industrial-Sized Play Structures

We all know that life is hard sometimes, yet we are shocked every time something hard happens. Go figure. I think it’s because we were never really meant to live like this. We were originally created to be in Eden and have a perfect relationship with God and those around us. But we’re not in… Continue reading 25 Get Moving

I was lying in bed at 4:30 in the morning wide awake. It’s not like I wasn’t tired, I was. It’s not like I had gone to bed so early that my sleep schedule changed, it didn’t. I didn’t even have any caffeinated beverages (of ANY kind) for weeks, so THAT wasn’t it, either! I… Continue reading 24 From a Place of Rest