This is just a fun piece that reminds me of the old song, Tip Toe Through the Tulips. I feel like you can hear her skirt swishing as she walks. All the shells were collected by my grandmother when she visited Florida.


This is just a fun piece that reminds me of the old song, Tip Toe Through the Tulips. I feel like you can hear her skirt swishing as she walks. All the shells were collected by my grandmother when she visited Florida.


Sunrise at Grand Canyon National Park, New Year’s Day Psalm 118:24 NLT This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. One of my favorite times as a teacher was singing, This Is the Day, with the kids first thing in the morning. With the singing and dancing,…
Is there really a period at the end of your sentence? As I note the one year anniversary of the passing of my father, it’s snowing in much the same way it did on the day of his funeral – a puffy quiet Christmas movie kind of snow. It is peaceful, and I am reminded…
Joel 3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears.Let the weak say, “I am strong!” In 1959, Soviet Union artist Evgeniy Vuchetich, gifted his statue called, Let Us Beat Swords Into Ploughshares, to the United Nations. Ironically, based on the verse found in Isaiah 2:4, the Soviet Union was anything but peaceful. The Union…
Suttle Lake, OR 2 Thessalonians 1:2 NIV Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps you will think this is strange, but when I think of the Peace and Grace of God, I often think of Dobby. Yes, the house elf from Harry Potter. While he is owned by…
A Love Letter to Jesus Dear Jesus, Thank you! God loved me so much He sent You and You loved me so much that You sent your Holy Spirit, but so much selfless love is incomprehensible. Thank you for finding ways to wrap me in that crazy magnanimous love so I can feel it in…
1 Samuel 2:2 NIV There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God. On a recent visit to the ocean, I found a rock with a perfect hole through it. As I picked it up, I thought this wasn’t the first time finding one. Sure enough, when I…