My value-based affirmation word is freedom. I discovered this on a walk and talk with God. How to live in freedom when you have no control. In day 3, week 3 of my Bible study, I read a very familiar passage about Paul and Silas. Acts 16:16 – 34 is the story of them being…
Happy Birthday!
my-daddy-describing-my-birthday My daddy shares my birth and their verse. My parents were interviewed by Richmond Times Dispatch in honor of their 60th Wedding Anniversary. I asked the interviewer for a copy of the video three years ago. I found it, and remembered that my dad had described my actual birthday–the one from 1965. I’m so…
Kintsugi Heart
“Kintsugi is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. Nothing is ever truly broken – that’s the philosophy behind the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi, which repairs pottery by using beautiful seams of gold. This 500-year-old technique not only restores functionality to broken pots, but…
The Still Small Voice
Dad, Parish read my post about your homecoming. Remember when I was pregnant with Vivian Grace? I was so scared I would have a miscarriage. We had been through so much heartache and loss. I asked Parish to pray for our baby’s name. At that time we did not know if it would be a…
Homecoming
Daddy, Your best friend, Pop Vickers, encouraged us to write letters to you. I’ve wanted to write, but I find my heart too scattered and too overwhelmed. I’d like to say that life settled down since your passing. Certainly we’ve learned a lesson or two about what is really, truly important. Here we are being…
A Time for Everything
A Time for Everything Ecclesiastes 3: 1-14 3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,4 a time…
The Farmer in the Dell
In the small hours of the morning of my father’s celebration of life, I was in a state of restless sleep. In and out of sleeping, thinking, dreaming, and remembering. At around 4:30 a.m., my brain decided to remember the song lyrics to “The Farmer in the Dell.” I laughed and thought that it was…
Value-Based Affirmations
There is is this place in our brain that helps us with motivation, reward, and handling the critics. It is called the anterior cingulate cortex, or ACC. This region of the brain also has been implicated in several complex cognitive functions, such as empathy, impulse control, emotion, and decision-making. I listened to an amazing podcast…
Eirene-Peace
A recent study led me to view the word “peace” differently. I’ve often been told, and I have said to others, “If you don’t have a sense of peace about your decision, you should reconsider.” Or, “God would never place confusion in your life. He is not a God of confusion, so if you are…
Ocean Isle, NC Plum Coastal Cottage
THEME OF THE WEEK: GREAT JOY! Sunday, August 9, 2020 Travel Day “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and all the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown “Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar Today we…
ARRESTED BY GRACE 