January 31, 2014
My life could be described a lot of different ways but “exciting” would probably NOT make the list. So far today, I’ve gotten a child off to school, changed the sheets on the bed and run a couple of loads of laundry. Later, I’m going to the grocery store because like poor old Mother Hubbard, my cupboards are bare! Exciting? Not so much. For now, my days are spent mostly at home tending to home type things and I am mostly very content with that. So as we look at…
January 17, 2014
First a little recap: The word of the day is FOCUS. The goal is to get focused and maybe more importantly, stay focused on the things of the Lord. To be honest, my mind wandered more than once just typing that sentence and I had to resist an overwhelming urge to check my email even though I just looked at it five minutes ago! I’m so grateful God “remembers we are but dust”. (Psalm 103:14) But knowing how much I appreciate someone giving me some uninterrupted time and full attention,…
September 29, 2013
Every morning I start the day with a cup of coffee. I can’t even remember a time in my life when I didn’t drink coffee. I wasn’t one of those people who started needing the caffeine rush to study for final exams. By the time I could read and way before I was being tested in school, my coffee addiction was firmly in place. My daddy taught me to drink coffee when I was a little girl. I would sit by his chair at the “coffee table” and he would…
February 22, 2013
Most of us have heard the expression, “Love is blind”, but may not know that Shakespeare coined the phrase, which was quite a favorite of his.
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies that themselves commit.”
— Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice
The understood meaning of the quote is that loving another prevents us from seeing their faults and imperfections. Interestingly, love’s blindness is not just the stuff of Shakespearean plays and figurative language. Modern research studies found that feelings of love can actually suppress activity…
My life could be described a lot of different ways but “exciting” would probably NOT make the list. So far today, I’ve gotten a child off to school, changed the sheets on the bed and run a couple of loads of laundry. Later, I’m going to the grocery store because like poor old Mother Hubbard, my cupboards are bare! Exciting? Not so much. For now, my days are spent mostly at home tending to home type things and I am mostly very content with that. So as we look at…
