"If you're worried and you can't sleep/ Just count your blessings instead of sheep/ And you'll fall asleep/ Counting your blessings." -...

Today's post may at first seem a little tongue in cheek, but I assure you it also has some real substance and practical applications for...

"Oh, to grace how great a debtor - Daily I'm constrained to be; Let that grace now like a fetter - Bind my wand'ring heart to Thee: Prone...

Three days ago Tom and I celebrated our fortieth anniversary. I still can't quite wrap my head around that. The years flew by. I know...

"Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst of them." - Matthew 18:20 I debated about whether or not I should...

"...how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye?" - Matthew 7:4...

It was one of those lovely, lazy spring afternoons. Tom and I were coming back from a drive to Bandera. Windows down. Breeze, perfectly...

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God....

Sometimes I wonder about my sanity. I know my husband wonders about it. He sees the effects of my hamster wheel-ing and I'm pretty sure...

I remember sitting in a Sunday morning Bible class some years ago, watching a video by Max Lucado. I can't recall exactly what the topic...

If you've lived long enough, you may remember that phrase from a 1970s martial arts television show: Kung Fu. In the show, Master Po used...

Last week was a veeeeery interesting week, not only because Tom fell off the ladder while fixing the gutter and badly sprained his ankle...

I was on my way over to my daughter's house a couple of weeks ago for an outing at the Botanical Garden when I saw it. "IT." The For Sale...

It was mesmerizing, this interplay between the two of them. Each having a specific task, yet working in such tandem they seemed as one....

I found myself standing at the sink staring at the mound of dirty pots and utensils awaiting attention. I don't know why this particular...

"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds...

"How deep the Father's love for us; How vast beyond all measure, That He should give His only Son, To make a wretch His treasure...." ...

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 I remember this song blaring out over...

Do you think it perhaps began with Snow White and that magic mirror that spoke the truth about who was fairest of all? I wonder. I...

Several years ago as Tom and I were settling into this little casita, we decided we wanted to "upgrade" our backyard space with a firepit...