I hadn’t looked at this in a very long time but a friend found it quoted on a website so I thought I’d share it again here: “Although our own pain is not always caused by our personal sin, sin, in a larger sense is the reason pain and disease entered Eden. Sin entered the […]
When our kids were little, each Christmas I would set up two nativity scenes, one was glass and for display, the other one was plastic. The kids and their friends weren’t allowed to touch the glass one but the plastic one was there just so they could play with it. During play times Mary and […]
As part of my teacher induction I was assigned the job of writing a poem about time. It was a kind of “fill in the blanks” poem that went something like this: Time is_______________________ Time sounds like_____________________ Time feels like___________________ etc. Here is what I cam up with: Time Time is invisible. It sounds like […]
This daily prayer is the result of my research as well as the thoughts of friends and family. It is taken from the “Armor of God” passage in Ephesians. Dear Lord, Make me alert to the warfare around me. Help me discern what is good and what is evil. Bless me this morning as I put on your armor […]
Last reblogged post on floating…though I think it may take me a lifetime to learn how to really do it. 🙂 I spent Saturday at the the Red Piano Too gallery. I had a sweet day visiting with customers and the artists that were able to attend. As I watched two of my favorite artists […]
Those of you who know me, know that I can’t stay away from writing for long. This time it has been longer than usual. It’s been a time of change….job change, major move, daughter’s wedding, just to mention a few. And all of this change has required some reworking of my heart. I don’t know […]
My youngest child is adopted. She has known all her life that we adopted her and I told her, honestly, that I believed her birthmother loved her with all her heart. There are several reasons why I believe that, one of them being that I can’t imagine how much courage it took for her to […]
What is the point of writing? To create. To express yourself. To help you sort through things. To get published. To make a living. (LOL) To touch readers. What? When, like most writers, you have a lifelong addiction to putting words on paper (or computer screens) you have to stop and deal with that question…at least occasionally. […]
They say you aren’t a real writer till you can paper a room with rejections. I have been submitting manuscripts since 1990 and I could probably paper my entire house by now. I have been fortunate, I know. I have had the wonderful thrill and privilege of seeing some of my stuff in print, but […]
Saturday I went out in my Kayak again. Many times this year, even in winter, I have been fortunate to catch a glimpse of some of the local wildlife. I have seen a Great Blue Heron, an Osprey, a Kingfisher, a beaver, several turtles, a sea gull and a drunk skinny dipper (just kidding:). Saturday was particularly windy so […]
A year and a half ago we moved into our lake house. I had grown up on a lake, but had been landlocked for 30 years and I missed the water so much that I felt like I was just going to shrival up if I didn’t get back to it. So, I started driving around looking for slivers of silver, and […]
Even on my days off I find myself making a mental list of everything I want to get done…everything I should get done. I think on the top of that list should be the words: 1. Be still Not for a minute, or a second, but for long enough to get past just catching my […]
I know that creativity requires energy so I’m wondering; Do I need to store up energy to be more creative? When I blog does it drip creative energy out of me like a leaky faucet? Do I need to hold back on my blog and my painting for a bit until the pressure becomes so pent up that it […]
Sometimes the giants among us look small because they are flying so high.
When I read this blog I thought it was so wise that I had to share it. I will only add one thing. I believe that this is a sustainable way to live as long as you have enough recreation and relaxing time, and as long as you give 100 percent to that rest time too. Rest […]
Robin Prince Monroe 