I love to listen to music but I can also be oblivious in my listening. I can listen to a song a handful of times and even sing along to it without realizing what it is that I’m singing. And then when my brain finally registers the words, it’s like I’m listening to the song […]
In the early days of my marriage, I nagged and complained a lot. With 3 little boys in the house and a full time job, it was impossible to keep the house clean. I’d go into these cleaning frenzies and start complaining and yelling about messes and not being anyone’s maid. And everyone in the
It’s hard to stop and see the beauty around us with all the chores of life. When the weather channel forecasts snow for instance, there is so much prep to do: shopping for essentials, food, sodium chloride, candles in case the power goes out. Then afterwards…the mounds of snow that have to be moved off
For those of you that don’t know what a parable is…it’s basically a story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson. Throughout the New Testament, Jesus uses parables as a teaching technique. They were a great way to illustrate a point to His listeners and followers. Sometimes He even used three different parables to illustrate
When you look up the words gratitude and thankfulness in the dictionary, it says that they mean essentially the same thing… “a feeling of appreciation or gratefulness for something good that has happened or that you have received;” it also defines them as a “positive emotion expressing thanks for something in your life, often directed
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I took this picture last year after one of the few snow storms we had in Poughkeepsie, NY. It’s amazing how beautiful a simple road can look when adorned with snow. I don’t often stop to admire things like this. Life can be so loud and busy sometimes that I miss the beauty in the
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