Monthly Archives: July 2017

Dear Reader: I had a God Wink over the weekend that has guided me into the new week. It all started with a comment from Michele Jones who graciously agreed to do the sermon while our pastor was gone yesterday. … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Yesterday Honey sent me some articles from their Sunday paper (last week) in the mountains…one was about a beautiful garden a man started upon retirement and how it has been a healing sanctuary for him throughout several serious … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Joyce Carol Oates, famous author, once commented that she never gave her writing much thought, especially her part in it…she was simply doing what came naturally to her….“I’m the garden hose water flows through.” Isn’t that true of … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Every time I visit the grandchildren or they come to see me I say a little prayer…“Dear Lord, please let them stay little…just a little longer.”  But as hard as I try and as earnestly as I pray…I … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: I read an article the other day about the number of times in our lives we have a yearning to go home again. For me, a homesick child, that meant any time I wasn’t home, while growing up…but … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: There is something about living in a world of uncertainty that forces us stop long enough to look around. Then one day, for no particular reason, the wonderful realization dawns upon us that we have been given a … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Most of us who have ever taken a basic art class in school or college or perhaps gone to a painting/wine class where everyone emerges (at the end of the evening) with the same painting (made better in … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: Family birthdays become more significant and more special as time goes by. We realize as we pose for pictures each year that the gift of gathering…the gift of life…is the most precious thing in the world. We also … Continue reading →

  Dear Reader: As I was finishing the mystery novel I told you about yesterday a phrase (that I had not heard in a long time) inadvertently came rushing back with childhood memories and loving feelings  intact. The expression was … Continue reading →

Dear Reader: As I was watering all the flowers by the fence early yesterday morning…I felt like a proud parent…without even any lessons the morning glories knew how to intuitively start to climb the fence and when they had reached … Continue reading →