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As we approach the family holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas, our thoughts go to our dearest family and friends. And we want and need to be with them. Sometimes I wish that I could go back for a day to many years ago and be with my beloved family, my parents and my brothers and sistersContinue reading “Thanksgiving Thoughts”

There truly is something to be done in the garden at every point during the year. As we are cleaning out the flower beds of this year’s dead annuals, we are also dead heading to have seeds for next year. I had a goal to fill up the compost barrels so at a point inContinue reading “Looking Ahead to Next Year”

We watched, and we thought probably many of you did too, the pageantry of Queen Elizabeth’s death and remembrances. It was estimated that perhaps billions of people around the world watched. Thousands, if not millions, were involved in different locations in the UK. Horses and carriages of all sorts. Soldiers and families and bands. AndContinue reading “A Royal Send Off”

When she co-managed the Baptist Youth Camp with my father, Mom sent out a newsletter called The Camper. She included a poem she wrote upon the birth of her first grandchild. To A Grandchild …. Precious child, I’m so thankful God sent you along to grace my life. “Grace, your name, “unmerited favor—God’s gift toContinue reading “To A Grandchild”

At my age, I believe people begin to be retrospective about the human condition. We have lived through wars—some of us have served in them—sickness, death, natural disasters. In one place we lived, the house was struck twice by lightning—I could go on, but you get the picture. Here is the bottom line—this is theContinue reading “Comfort in Suffering”