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Clueless

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." - Luke23:34 Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the forty day period of...

Fresh Eyes

Every so often I get in a bit of a slump. The same old - same old starts to get a little too redundant, and I begin feeling a...

Ask... Then stand in Amazement

Actually, today's post could be titled, "Time, Part II." It goes hand in hand with last week's entry, though that was not initially how...

Time

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 Thinking about time today. It has been a...

Honoring Age

"The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old." - Proverbs 20:29 If you've read these...

A Message to Myself... about "Worry"

"And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life's span?" - Matthew 6:27 Sometimes you have to preach to yourself....

"Savor"

I suppose I'm pretty late to this whole "word" for the New Year thing. In fact, I'm so late I'm not even sure people are still doing...

Tradition

The house smells heavenly! I just got back from picking up our Christmas tamales at Adelita. Because this is such a tiny house, the...

O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree

I sit here this drizzly morning, coffee at my side, admiring the little pencil tree that adorns the corner of my dining room. It's all...

Little Houses

It's almost here! I can hardly contain my excitement. In less than a week family will fill these walls to brimming, and it will be...

1940s House, you remind me to be grateful.

A couple of weeks ago I happened across an old show on YouTube that ran some twenty years ago on British television. It was called 1940s...

Of Highways... and Marriages

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending time in Spring, Texas, watching two of my grandsons while Mark and Laura attended a...

Old Chairs

"Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God." - Romans 15:7 I have a thing for old chairs. Whenever I...

When God Winks

Sometimes God makes Himself known to us in the majestic. The crashing waves, the towering mountains, the fiery sunsets. We take it in,...

Thoughts About Home

Home. It's such a lovely word. The mere mention of it brings a smile to my face and calm to my heart... but why? What is it about "home"...

Fire and Water

Last post I mentioned having had the opportunity to spend a couple of days in Galveston with some of the family. Tom and I were lucky...

"He's Still 'Lion.'"

Last week we got to get out of San Antonio for a few days and head to Galveston, one of my very favorite places to visit. Tom and I...

I wonder...

I wonder about lots of things. I really do. Things sometimes connect in my brain in strange, relational ways that get me thinking,...

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