Skip to main content

Posts

Remember when?

  Google image "Good friends will stick with you until you're unstuck." ~ Winnie the Pooh Remember that time we ...? I will always think of you when I see... This reminds me of that time we ... I can't believe you remember... I recall you were the one that ... Ah, memories.  Good, bad,  life giving,  life threatening, even life endangering.  There's no greater feeling than seeing an old friend, someone we shared life with at one time or another, or still do.  They know us for us - in weakness and strength,  sound mind and sound body or unsound mind and frail body.   There is a niche in time carved out that we shared together, where we put our imprint on something somewhere.  The understanding doesn't even have to be uttered but it is because it brings back the emotion of the experience and resolidifies our relationship. Acceptance is realized and appreciated.  No one can take away that shared survival. ❔Who is our best old friend? "...
Recent posts

Jesus Loves Me This I Know

  "God loves each of us as if there's only one of us." ~ Augustine    🎵What's the one song that is your go-to, feel good, get you out of the dumps song when you're having a bad day?   The one that speaks to your soul, or had a profound effect on you during an especially challenging time in your life?   Did you know one of the songs most dementia patients remember from their childhood is "Jesus Loves Me".  It's  an emotional anchor for them spiritually, and songs like these provide comfort, reduce anxiety and promote social interaction,  providing a lot of therapeutic value, according to the National Institute of Health. 🎵This simple hymn was written to comfort a dying child, and it has comforted countless people of all ages to this day.  Think about its' content, and, though simplistic, how submerged in Scripture it is:   🎵    "Jesus loves me"- "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that wh...

Christmas in July

  Google image "I will honor Christmas in my heart and try  to keep it all year." ~ Scrooge, A Christmas Carol 🌞Alright, alright - I hear you.  Please don't talk about Christmas while you are enjoying summer.  (But someone needs to hear this - there are only 157 days left.)  And you know what comes out  first- the school supplies, then one day later the autumn decor.  Then three days after that is Christmas everything.  And my happy meter spikes:)  I can already smell the pumpkin spice latte.☕ Now some may think I'm trying to throw shade on the whole summer experience. 😎 And you would be right.  I only endure summer because fall is just around the corner, and I am finally able to celebrate this time of year appropriately, without a start to school.   I will admit I love the poppies that are growing in my yard.  And of course the baby deer.  And the garden tomatoes and peaches.  OK, summer does have some redeemi...

Our Anthem

  Google image " and this be our motto,  in God is our trust, " ~ "The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key   I wake up this morning, shake out my creaky bones, and sit on the patio with a cup of coffee wondering if I am going to catch a glance of the baby deer.  I open my Bible, listen to the birds and breathe in the fresh air.  Probably going to have a hot dog later - a cheese-filled hot dog (a glorious thing I just discovered). There is no one to tell me when to get up, I don't have to hide my Bible, I don't hear any bombing in the distance.  My coffee is readily available, and I can leisurely sip it on my patio for as long as I want today.  It's Independence Day.    Thank you, patriots and their families.  Thank you for making this peaceful morning free of tyranny, bondage, fear and oppression.  Not all places in this world can say that. So many have been inspired by the courage displayed by those who fought for the freedoms ...

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

  "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear  Duunnn-Dunnn...Duuuunnnn-Duun...Dun-Dun... Happy Birthday to you." 🦈  It's so simple really.  Just don't let any sharks on the boat. Wise advice given by my grandsons that had built a fort on the bunk beds and were fighting to keep all the sharks off the boat.  ðŸ¦ˆ Why can't everything be that simple?  Just keep all the sharks and piranhas and killer whales out of your life.  What are your sharks?  What are the things that slowly and methodically want to take you off your game, or even drown you?  Distractions? Busyness?  Cramped social calendar? Spiritual Pride?  Harboring grudges? Low self-esteem? High self-esteem?  Laziness? Work?   🦈  All lies from the master of lies.  Duunnn-dun.  If the sharks are attacking you,  "you're gonna need a bigger boat!" (~Police Chief Brody, Jaws).  Newsflash! You already have a bigger boat....

Salt or Pepper?

  "You are the salt of the earth.  But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation."  ~Israelmore Ayivor, Christian author 👀 "Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take, I'll be watching you."   What a great song by  The Police , though a bit strong.  But do you  ever feel like you're being watched?  Like you are being judged because you profess to be a Christian, so people are evaluating your responses, your actions, your intentions?   As Jesus says in the book of Matthew 5 , we are to be the  ' salt of the earth' (Matt 5:13).  What does that mean, as a follower of Christ? 👀  And what if  sometimes we're more like pepper - spicy, with appearances of soil, and we make people respond with a sneeze - they just want to get us out of their system?  Are we kicked out for letting God down? (Why did I choose a cat for this one?) What does s...

What's in a Name?

  Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery "She's been a blessing to us, and there never was a luckier mistake than what Mrs. Spencer made- if it WAS luck.  I don't believe it was any such thing.  It was PROVIDENCE, because the Almighty saw we needed her, I reckon." Marilla, upon Anne's mistaken arrival to Green Gables. You've probably heard the name Anne of Green Gables- she was a vibrant uneducated orphan, lacking in social graces, who showed up 'by mistake' for Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert (who were expecting a young boy to help with the farm).  This classic has won our hearts over through the years as the unexpected turns into a beautiful story of acceptance and love, attributed to the Providence of God. While Anne was fictional, this story is not-  -jealously loathed by his brothers (bad) because he told the truth (good) about dreams he had, he was thrown into a cistern and left to die, then sold into slavery (definitely bad).  As a slave he was prom...