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Under Grace.
Oh dear and merciful Lord, I thank you for my shepherds! How protected under your cover I feel, knowing you sent these wonderful people, prepared to love, serve, and even protect me at my great h...
Knit Uniquely
“Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multi-dimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by th...
Broken
Bottom line, I don’t know how much more hurt my heart can stand. I’ve not even been up to writing much. Four dear friends have died this month, several more may or may not make it through the ni...
Greatest Gift Ever
There aren’t words sufficient to express the love felt once you have become a mother. It is an unbreakable bond, indeed much like the intimacy one forms with the Holy Creator, Himself. Never have...
Man Down
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Giv...
Reality Wagon
Maybe you think friendship should never be bumpy. Consider again. Peaks and valleys form the horizon. Nobody ever promised life is easy. Of highest order comes integrity. Lower than all acts fall...
Li2CO3
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at...
Foiled
“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its...
Heartbreak And Hope
As a mother I have not always been the best. So, there have been many walls to break down and paths to build. All because of choices I made. Bad choices, and moments when life was out of control ...
Seasons Change
First snow began arriving about an hour ago. Already the ground is covered. Flakes fall sideways from the sky, the wind hustling them along. Suddenly the frozen crystals appear as soft as milk we...
On Highlands Pond
I heard shotgun blasts. Fifteen. Then dozens more. So I went outdoors to discern the direction of the sound. Oh dear God, it’s quite near by! The shooting slowed and I began to hear cries and mou...
Quickening
oh Lord you hear my prayers always i reach out to you, though my words come slowly there are times of silence when I just don’t know what to say i plea, God help me pray. my heart is hard and fee...
RETREAT!
After a long day I find myself here, cross-eyed tired, trying to think my way through an entry. I need to get to bed very soon as tomorrow is an early day for me and will be a late one as well. ...
As Providence Decrees
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good...
Prisoners
I don’t know how much I am willing to write or think of this any longer today but I am so deeply bothered I feel the need to let this go. Today a daughter of a good friend was abducted by a woman...
Messages From My Porch
God’s beauty surrounds me these last wonderful days of nice autumn weather. The multitude of trees showing their glorious red, orange, brown, yellow hues. A lady bug has come to wander closely by...
Indian Summer
A productive day for me, starting early with getting a huge load of towels and bathmats rinsed, bleached, rinsed, washed, and rinsed again, between each cycle wringing them by hand to dry them en...
betrayal
as tears ran down my face ‘uncle roy’ grinned as he zipped mommy wiped his betrayal from my cheeks she said, “shhh, stop crying now!” Why was mommy there?
Closer To Thee
“I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, ...
Peculiar Glory
Tomorrow is shrinkologist day. I’ve never been so glad for an appointment. Two weeks ago he thought I was having some toxic overload from my Lithium so cut me off it for four days then cut the do...
i backslided
forgive me Lord my knees bent on dis floor, my face covered and low i have sinned i doubted You i backslided into my pain, afflicted Lord i lost heart before i think to ask your forgiveness it’s ...
The Mighty Tongue *edit*
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. “See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our member...
Gonna Work It Out
I have plenty to write about but I’ve clammed up again, nothin’ wants to come out, so I’m gonna just free write until it pours out naturally. Took myself a five week vacation to the U.P. Though w...
Service To The Church
In Sunday School last week the subject was service to the Church. My day closed on the same line of thought by Charles H. Spurgeon. If this be true of the literal Israel, much more is it true of ...
Sinking Feeling
Like the elevator floor fell out from under me. That’s how it felt when I heard the drugs for my treatment are due to be available to doctors this coming week. It was more than an unexpected mom...
Book Description
On September 10, 2012 I received the following message,
“On this day, God wants you to know
that as you surrender to divine providence in your life,
you will feel lifted and carried and held.
All is well, all is well, all is well.”
And that is when this story began.
