Listen Carefully…Be Inspired By God
Listen carefully and you will hear God calling. He may be planting an idea. He may be quietly inspiring you to greater things. Watch …
Who Are You Following?
There are but two essential requirements: First: Has any one cheated death and proved it? Second: Is it available to me? Here is the …
Look Ahead with Promise, Hope, and Joy
Down through the centuries, in times of trouble and trial, God has brought courage to the hearts of those who love Him. The Bible …
God’s Goodness
Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God’s goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God’s goodness, rooted in His character, is the …
Museum Quote
In any museum we will find quite ordinary things – clothes, a walking stick, a pen, pieces of furniture – which are only of …
The Light Of The Gospel
The gospel is the tale of a light breaking into the world that even the darkness cannot overcome. – Frederick Buechner
Heaven Forever
If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just …
Are There Birthday Parties In Heaven?
In the eight years that have passed since I wrote this post I have been fighting cancer and dealing with the aftermath. Last year …
Memories of Mom – Priceless Moments, Eternal Lessons
Even though my Mom has been gone for decades now, I still remember her smile, her soft voice, the joy on her face as …
A Step of Faith
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith …
Jesus Heals
“Is not God as willing to show the mercy of healing to His worshippers as He is to show the mercy of forgiveness to …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is grand. While photographing the sunset on Mobile Bay this thunderhead began to move in, and the setting …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Let There Be Light
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is light. The hardest part of this week’s challenge for me was deciding which photos to use. I …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is layers. The layers of rings on a tree reveal the tree’s age. The rings on this petrified …
Asking The Right Question
The message on this church sign caught our attention when driving through Alabama, so we turned around to see if the – – – …
A Better Choice
“Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to …
Surprises From God
In the heat of summer this little flower came up through a crack in the asphalt of our church parking lot. It was right …
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Sweating drops of blood, in anguish I prayed, While friends sleep in the cool of the night’s shade, …
The Secret Silent Invisible Forces
Character is not built by battling and excitement alone. The harvest is not ripened by the thunderous forces of nature, but by the secret …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 17
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is the window of a balcony door that opens to an inviting setting with a table and chairs, …
The Work of Christmas Begins
When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 16
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is the window to our church’s Baptistry. A link at the end of this post will …
A New Year, A Fresh Page
Today is a new day. In a few days hours it will be a new year. Each moment is a new moment to start …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 15
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is a lighted Cross displayed on a medical building for Christmas. A link at the end …
The Gift Of Christmas
The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. …
Expecting God’s Wonder – A Holy Invitation
My third and final post in a three-part review of the new book “Wonderstruck” by Margaret Feinberg. Have you ever prayed this prayer? What would …
Expecting God’s Wonder – With Holy Anticipation
The second in a three-part review of the new book “Wonderstruck” by Margaret Feinberg. Have you ever prayed this prayer? What would you expect if you …
Travel Theme: Transportation
This week’s Travel Theme photo challenge from Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? is Transportation. If you want to get from one side of a …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 13
My choice for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is photos of two windows in a tent set up at a Christmas event. A link at the …
Where Is Jesus In The Christmas Frenzy?
‘Tis the season to ask this question…
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 12
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is an arrangement of Christmas decorations in front of and between windows that face a porch. …
Expecting God’s Wonder
Have you ever prayed this prayer? What would you expect if you did? I recently had the opportunity to read a few pre-release chapters of a …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 11
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is a couple of shots of my kitten when we first adopted him. Here he’s peeking …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
The current WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to “Share a photo that means REFLECTIONS to you!” The reflection from this patch of grass looks …
[Slightly] Extreme Makeover
If you’ve been here before Thanksgiving, you’re probably noticing the design has changed since then. It’s still somewhat under construction as I learn my …
Coming Soon!
My review of Wonderstruck, a new book by Margaret Feinberg, due to be released Christmas Day, 2012. “The Creator desires to captivate us not …
Travel Theme: Liquid
I’ve changed my WordPress theme, and I’m still learning my way around the features to get everything set up. If you get lost here, clicking …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 10
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is a house with an unusual design in the third story windows. In the summer this view is …
Thanksgiving Day Gratitude
Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. Robert Casper …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is a multi-photo challenge to “Share (many) pictures in a gallery which mean GREEN to you!” The link …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 9
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is a trio of stained glass church windows. A link at the end of this post …
Rushing Past Thanksgiving
Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Richard Roeper Has Thanksgiving become …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 8
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is windows on the front of a charming cottage. I could spend hours on that porch, the …
Everything Else Is Just Stuff
Walking carefully through the pile of debris that was once someone’s home, I was overcome with sadness at the utter destruction I was witnessing. …
A Special Toy
From Rochelle Wisoff-Fields – “Every Friday authors from around the world gather here to share their 100-words and offer constructive crit and encouragement to each …
Travel Theme: Bright
This week’s Travel Theme photo challenge from Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? is Bright. Bright fireworks against a dark night sky. Bright sunshine reflected …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is about “the shapes and rhythms that make up the geometry of our world.” More submissions to this …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 7
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is windows at the top of a round barn. A link at the end of this …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to post examples of foreign. I haven’t been in a foreign country as an adult, so my …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 6
My photo for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge is a church window with a unique shape. A link at the end of this post …
Now Is Precious
Daily Prompts have returned to The Daily Post, and today’s prompt is: Write about the most precious thing you’ve ever lost. Time. Time is …
Hunger And Hopelessness As Constant Companions
Participating in weekly photo challenges has been a great way for me to get back into blogging after missing so much in previous months, …
Travel Theme: Couples
This week’s Travel Theme photo challenge from Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? is Couples. Or “daring duos, perfect pairs, or terrible twins.” There’s a …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to “Share a picture of a Silhouette with everyone!” The silhouettes of windmills tower over a silhouette …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 5
My photos for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge are two views of one window; the second photo is a close-up of the design details. …
Travel Theme: On Display
Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? has a weekly photo challenge of Travel Themes. This week the photo theme is On Display. As she said, “No …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Big
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to “Share a picture which means BIG to you!” Details of my submissions are below each photo: …
Where Faith Begins
This inspiring hand-painted sign reminds all who pass by to remember the encouraging and timeless words of Psalm 46:10 and Isaiah 30:15. Psalm 46:10 is an …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 4
I’m posting two different, yet similar, photos of windows for this week’s Thursday’s Windows challenge on Sandra’s blog “By The Book“. A link at the end …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to “Share (many) pictures in a gallery which mean HAPPY to you!” I haven’t experimented with using …
Travel Theme: Animals
Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? has a weekly photo challenge of Travel Themes. This week the photo theme is Animals. One lone penguin had wandered …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 3
Sandra Conner from the blog “By The Book” started a new weekly photo challenge a couple of weeks ago that sounds like fun, especially for …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Mine
This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is to “share a picture that means MINE to you!” The Bible in this photo is mine. I …
Travel Theme: Foliage
Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? invited me to the photo challenge of Travel Themes. Thank you Ailsa! This week the photo theme is Foliage. I …
Photo Challenge: Thursday’s Windows – Week 2
Sandra Conner from the blog “By The Book” started a new weekly photo challenge that sounds like fun, especially for someone like me who …
All Our Senses Declare The Glory Of God!
I heard the waves crashing against the shore before the beach came into view, the sound blending with the smell of salt air. A …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary
This week’s WordPress photo challenge is Solitary: To share a picture that means SOLITARY to me. Cheri Lucas posted the challenge and said this …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life
This week’s WordPress photo challenge is Everyday Life; it’s all about people and the things they do every day. I quickly snapped this photo …
Sunsets – The Handiwork of God
When I captured a few moments of this incredible sunset as it broke through a large mass of angry dark clouds, I was awed …
A Vessel For Him
May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God’s presence, and not a moment without …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far
It’s strange to see this new type of “crop” in fields that used to grow corn, and although they are interesting, they aren’t nearly …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple
This week’s Photo Challenge from WordPress is to “Share a picture that means PURPLE to you!” I love the color purple, so that part is …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Arranged
The photo challenge from WordPress this week is: “Arranged…find something in your environment which was arranged by a human hand for others to enjoy!” …
A Rare Delight
If we view prayer as a constant fellowship, an unbroken audience with the King, it then loses every vestige of dread which it may …
Our Fastened Anchor
Our hope is not hung upon such untwisted thread as “I imagine so,” or “it is likely”; but the cable, the strong rope of …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Through
Each Friday Sara Rosso posts the WordPress weekly photo challenges; here is what she said about this week’s challenge: “Through. Often framing your photo’s …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual
Our cameras got a workout on last week’s trip to the Mobile, Alabama area for the 60th Annual Arts & Crafts Festival in Fairhope. …
Giving Thanks
For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrast
“Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” ~ Francis Scott Key 1814 The …
What Do You Need?
He has a name suiting every need. Do you need wonders to be wrought for you? His name is Wonderful; look to Him so …
Each Softly Whispers…
The joyful birds prolong the strain, Their song with every spring renewed; The air we breathe, and falling rain, Each softly whispers: God is …
He’s NOT Just for Church!
Nobody worries about Christ as long as He can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let Him out. Geoffrey A. Studdert-Kennedy
Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted
Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines DISTORT – when used as a transitive verb – 1) to twist out of the true meaning or proportion 2) …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Indulge
It was a beautiful day to indulge in a sail around the bay, but I could only enjoy it from the beach and through …
A Letter To Be Read
Read the Bible, not as a newspaper, but as a home letter. If a cluster of heavenly fruit hangs within reach, gather it. If …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Down
The WordPress Post a Week photo challenge is: “Down. We spend a lot of time looking ahead, looking from left to right before we …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Regret
Regret: This alligator surely regrets being behind this fence, in captivity, while countless people walk past and stop to stare or take pictures.
What Are You Magnifying?
When you magnify an object, you enlarge it so that you can understand it. When we magnify God, we do the same. We enlarge …
On A Moonlit Winter Night
I wanted to capture the beautiful moon ring that appeared on Saturday night, January 7, 2012, and after taking several photos this was the best one. …
Happy New Year 2012!
It’s the first day of the first month of a brand new year. I don’t know what lies ahead in the days, weeks, and …
Merry Christmas!
“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name …
Where is Jesus in the Christmas Frenzy?
I have always loved snow. If I had a favorite season, winter could be it because of Christmas and snow. But I like all …
God’s Love Flows
God’s love is not a slowly dripping faucet or a well we must dig for ourselves. It is a rushing stream that flows from …
No Ordinary Day
Any day that begins with God’s new mercies is a special day. Since His mercies are new every morning, that makes every day special. …
Hope In Despair
I don’t know how God will do it, but somehow, while you are in your dark and lonely place, God will come to where …
Sunday Morning Countdown
Elton Trueblood said, “It used to be that Christianity was a revolutionary faith that turned the world upside down. But today Christians sit in …
A Divine Investment
Even in those darkest times when all our other friends stand aside from us, God is always with us for good. He does not …
Repurposing The Broken
Being broken is painful. It may happen suddenly, or it may happen over a period of time from ongoing circumstances, or a series of …
You Are Seen, You Are Heard
When discouragement sets in and you feel unheard – when you are forced to wait on God – when you find yourself caught between …
Reading Proverbs In October
As September comes to a close I wish I could say I’ve finished reading the book of Psalms, but I still have a few …
Read The Psalms In September
For those of us who participated in “Reading the Entire New Testament in the Summer of 2011” we’ll be finishing Revelation this month, unless you have …
Daddy’s Tears – Daddy’s Hands
My first vivid memory of seeing my daddy cry was at my momma’s funeral as a 6-year-old. As he held me close on his …
Restoring The Soul
Beside the still waters… He restores my soul. Psalm 23:2b-3
Summer Reading Plan Starts Tomorrow!
Reminder: Tomorrow is the official kick-off day for “Reading the Entire New Testament in the Summer of 2011”! Since I was trying to find a …
Summer Reading Plan
I’ve never been good at following the Bible reading guides that take you through the Bible in a year, which usually includes reading a …
Life Happens, Blog About It
I grew up hearing about some guy named Murphy, who had apparently passed a law that mandates “if anything can go wrong, it will.“ …
Saga of A Neglected Blog
Time has flown by since my last post more than nine months ago. Many things happened in my life that I could have written …
Screen of Death Claims Another Unsuspecting Laptop
I’ve heard of the Blue Screen of Death, but apparently laptops are prone to a condition called ‘Black Screen of Death’ when the graphics …
A Vacation To Dream About
Plinky said, “Describe your dream vacation.” I can in one word, “Waterfalls!” I love waterfalls! A dream vacation for me would be to visit …
Life With A Very Special Book
The Plinky question is, “What book could you read over and over?” My answer is, “only one!” Although I am an avid reader and …
Ten Years From Now, I Hope My Life…
Now, I Hope My Life…will be cancer-free. I hope my chronic pain will be completely gone, or at least not any worse than it …
I Thanked Someone Today…
I Thanked Someone Today… Today I thanked someone for giving me fresh vegetables from their garden, and fresh picked blueberries from their blueberry bushes. …
If I Had Access To Unlimited Resources, I Would…
I just joined Plinky, a new WordPress service to help overcome writer’s block. It’s also a fun and interesting creative writing exercise that gets …
Picking Strawberries & Dodging Snake Spit
Strawberry smoothies made with fresh ripe strawberries taste so good on a hot afternoon! I love this time of year when strawberries are in …
Mother’s Day Love and Flowers
Mother’s Day is almost here, and once again many of us are faced with remembering our Mom in past tense. My Mother passed away …
Winter Is Over, Spring Is Here!
Spring is one of my favorite seasons. I love seeing all the new plants and flowers pushing up out of the ground after being …
He Who Has Ears To Hear…
There is often much mystery surrounding hearing from God. It’s actually as simple as “having ears” to hear from Him, and even if you …
Are There Birthday Parties In Heaven?
In the eight years that have passed since I wrote this post I have been fighting cancer and dealing with the aftermath. Last year …
Hearing His Voice 