Flashback Friday: Extended Family Memories

Mocha With Linda hosts a weekly meme called Flashback Friday. She’ll post a question every Thursday, and then Friday we can link our answers up on her site. The prompt for today is: Tell about any grandparents, cousins, or other extended family that was special to you growing up. Did they live near you or [...]

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Book Contest

Quilly is hosting a contest for the book Chosen Ones by Alister E. McGrath, published by Zondervan. It’s a youth fantsay something along the lines of Chronicles of Narnia, but with a “fresh. modern voice,” Quilly says. I’ve not read it, but I would love to win a copy! Five books will be awarded to [...]

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“Fret not thyself because of evildoers”

I am both a Christian and a conservative, and consequently I am not always happy about the state of affairs in our country (though I suppose non-Christians and liberals could say the same thing). But I don’t usually appreciate forwarded e-mails from good people whose position on an issue I might agree with but whose [...]

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The Week In Words

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, [...]

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Simply Trusting

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:6 Simply trusting every day, Trusting through a stormy way; Even when my faith is small, Trusting Jesus, that is all. Refrain [...]

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Senior Bumper Snickers

I am not a senior citizen, despite some business’s attempts to offer me senior discounts. But I am old enough to appreciate many of these: I’m retired. I was tired yesterday, and I’m tired again today. I’m in the initial stages of my golden years – SS, CD’s, IRA’s, AARP… Never do anything you wouldn’t [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts Friday’s Fave Five so we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God gives. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s to read others’ faves and link [...]

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Flashback Friday: Siblings

Mocha With Linda hosts a weekly meme called Flashback Friday. She’ll post a question every Thursday, and then Friday we can link our answers up on her site. The prompt for today is: Do you have siblings? (If not, keep reading – I’ll get to you.) How many and are they boys or girls? Where [...]

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Thinking out loud: analyzing vs. criticizing

This is something I wrestle with from time to time. I tend to be an analytical type. That doesn’t mean I am always thinking, processing, discerning, critiquing every little thing, person, point, issue, etc. — but I do a lot. And I think that’s fine to a degree: I don’t think it’s good to be [...]

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Book Review: This Fine Life

In some ways it is hard to pin down what This Fine Life by Eva Marie Everson is about, for it had many layers, and each one is rich and deep. It’s about Mariette Putnam, who has just graduated from boarding school in 1959 and returned to her privileged home in a small Georgia town, [...]

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