cover to cover – week twenty-nine

Sept 22-29
A Journey of a Thousand Steps
One morning this week, I got up and put on my Sketchers, with no tennis shoes available, and I took off for a walk down a country road. Rough caliches lined the road, and deep sloping ditches framed the winding, uphill start. I usually take a morning walk on [...]

sunday’s song – beautiful redemption

 

Beautiful Redemption~ Joy Williams
I’ve had my forty days and forty nights at sea
I’ve had forty years in the wilderness, or so to speak
I’ve walked with sand from the ocean floor on my feet
To turn and say you left me
I’m a doubting Thomas in needing to believe
I’m a perfumed sinner just like [...]

where’s “I Love Lucy” when you need it?

I turned off the TV. I’m going with the no news is good news theory. Read that phrase again assuming that all you hear is bad news. No news is good news right now so I am choosing to put my head in the sand and not listen to it any longer. I’ve heard enough [...]

broken heartstrings (or apron strings)

I’m dressed. Sort of. No  eye makeup and some sunglasses for the road to the airport , but I have on a cute outfit to feel a little lighter today. In an hour, I will drop off my precious middle child (she’s only 24) to go across the big ocean to school. You know what’s [...]

cool breeze and crimson leaves

Well, the official first day of fall came and went, and I didn’t even mention it, except a few hundred subtle allusions to it I’ve made in other posts. That is, until now. Yesterday was the proper and official introduction of autumn. Here in Houston, we pull out our sweaters more as a measure of [...]

cover to cover – week thirty-eight

Lessons I Learned in the Dark
Sept 15-22
I “borrow” a title from a great book by Jennifer Rothschild this week in describing where the Cover to Cover readings took my heart, where the experiences of the week took my soul.  This is another one of those weeks where there is so much richness in His Word. [...]

sunday’s song – everlasting God

After this week, the words hold richer meaning in this song we will sing today at church. Have a blessed Sunday, everyone.