Today I join the Gypsy Mama for Five Minute Friday with the prompt, Grow.  Writing briefly from the overflow of the heart. For fun, for love of the sound of words, for play, for delight, for joy and celebration at the art of...

Have you ever gotten up in the morning and thought, " That's it, I'm finished."  I did this morning, but not as you might think.  There has been a person that I have been at odds with for years.  Someone that I have never invited to any occasion at my...

"Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me." John 15:4

Today I'm having fun with The Gypsy Mama.  On Fridays around these parts we stop, drop, and write.For fun, for love of the sound of words, for play, for delight, for joy and celebration at the art of communication.For only five short, bold, beautiful...

The pace is slow today, though I should press hard to loose weight, and try to tone up, but my thoughts are a quickly running  creek. Pouring out images and thoughts of this morning's devotion and a blog from a friend.  I have so much to be thankful...

"Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of  unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers righteousness on you."  ~Hosea 10:12

Joy, oh Joy!  I have not written a blog in two weeks and I have been dying to sit down and tell you what has been going on!  For the past two years I have been working on my book, String of Pearls, with great diligent, night and day, with little regard for...

Trapped under mounds of rock, furniture, and people, a baby is held up to the light, where rescuers take her from her mother and rush the two week old to the hospital. Risking her own well being and possibly her own life, the mother chooses her daughter, Azra’s...

Diane W. Bailey: Open Your Mouth: I would like you to meet a friend of mine, her name is Kimberly Smith. Kimberly has been a missionary to Sudan and Congo while a civil war ...

Setting goals and accomplishing them is something I am good at doing and I am impatient in the wait.  It truly cranks my tractor to set a goal and accomplish it.   I’m a perfectionist, which means nothing is truly perfect in my eyes, because it...

Nothing can really be said.  Nothing can really be earned.  Simply a choice one makes to be able to move forward.  A gift, that is given willingly, whether or not it is ever acknowledged, is between the receiver and God.  To withhold the gift is...

Okay, usually my blogs are a little more quite and thoughtful, trying to see Images of Christ in all things.   But I just need to tell you about the last 24 hours of my life.  You are not going to believe this.It began last night.  As I was waiting for...