Who helped you grow into the person you are now? We’ve all had help getting where we are as people. Tonight as I watched The Golden Globes I listened to the winners thank their mentors. When I was a young wife and mother far from my own Mom God brought some special women into my […]

There’s a strange relief when you finally take off on a long trip.  I don’t mean relief that the plane took off safely, I’m talking about the absolutely wonderful feeling that whatever didn’t get done is beyond being dealt with, by me anyway, and can wait until I come home. Everything becomes like clothes in […]

Whose life isn’t a handful? While He walked among us we made Jesus’ life a handful! My guess:  He loved every minute of it.  His answer to our requests was always “I Will.”  Even people who didn’t ask, think of Peter’s mother-in-law,  received a healing touch.  When the disciples, excellent sailors who knew the Sea […]

I’m a little confused as to whether or not we’re suppose to post our Day 8 assignment.   Since I’m getting ready to leave for Africa I’m posting so I can quit deliberating and get on with my packing! I bought the Kiore Moana theme a few weeks ago because I was enchanted with the […]

I learned the hard way that my decisions have consequences, long term consequences. Before my son was born I wallpapered the nursery in a bold bright Jungle Graphic wallpaper.  What can I say?  I was pregnant.  It was the 70’s and we were a nation wallowing in Style Confusion.  Do I have to remind you […]

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i188/dburdyshaw/Z%20Misc%205%20FEP/open-hands.jpg When you want to pray, the first question is:  How do I open my closed hands? Henri Nouwen That’s our problem.  We’re hanging on too tightly. Afraid to let go of the thing, or person, or expectation that we fear God is taking from our grasp,  from our lives.  The loss, the soul shattering […]

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/zero-to-hero/ Today’s Assignment: publish a post that includes a new-to-you element. I’ve chosen my Pinterest Board ~ Interior Design. While Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann and a few programmers were still operating Pinterest out of an apartment I joined up and started ‘pinning’. I’ve had a life-long love affair with Interior design, good upholstered furniture, and […]

My husband has a college friend who has spent his entire career in sales.   This was in an email he sent today: A young guy from North Dakota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job. The Manager says, “Do you have any sales […]

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/zero-to-hero/ Dear Zero To Hero, I have enough temptation in my life without you giving us an assignment that can only end in discontentment and heartache!  You make me feel like these sharks—so many choices, which one shall I go after? . . .the eye is not satisfied with seeing,. . . Ecclesiastes 1:8 I […]