For decades Dr. Gary Chapman’s best-selling books have shown readers how to speak the “love language” of those they care about. In his newest work, Love as a Way of Life, Chapman presents poignant stories of real people who have discovered the joys of living out the seven characteristics of authentic love: kindness, patience, forgiveness,…
Archive | July, 2008
summertime on the menu
Hello from the farm! We’re still here, with everything that smacks of summer on the menu! Yesterday we enjoyed fresh cabbage salsa, with chopped tomatoes (green tomatoes are best in cabbage salsa!), cilantro, Ancho Pablano & Bell & Jalapeno peppers, and grated cabbage and sweet onion. Top it off with a little salt, pepper, sugar,…
Job 12-16: Wait for Him
Though He slay me, yet I can trustfully wait for Him. Though He slay my pride, my freedom, provison, fruit, hope…yet I can continue walking in His ways. Why? Because Resurrection is on His way. Like a felled tree that revives at the scent of water, we will revive at the arrival of Living Water….
Abide With Me
Life has not ceased to bring its share of busy times, of worry, uncertainty for the future, nor to be filled with the little blessings, the glimpses of His love and care. Just the other evening, as I sat at the piano, playing and singing the different songs that came to mind, this song came…
Project Rescue
Note: This post contains some details that may not be suitable for younger readers. My first introduction to Project Rescue came in picking up the book Beyond the Soiled Curtain (unfortunately already out of print) at a thrift shop in the Ozarks. Before I had time to begin reading I googled “Project Rescue” and read…
Ashleigh: The Wife of a Deployed Soldier
Ashleigh wrote a sweet post over at Rocks In My Dryer I wanted to point you all to: What I’d Like for You to Know
Fiction for a Midsummer’s Day
Early spring days at our little family antique store can be a bit slow, lending themselves to rearranging the displays, dusting the tables, and reading some good old books. (It would really be unpardonable to read a new book behind the counter of an antique store, would it not?) Three of them stood out as…
Be Still
It had been “one of those” mornings. It was the middle of December–Christmastime. Things were crazy. Everything from the past two months seemed to have hit me that day–my newborn, my husband’s surgery, a trip to Colorado, Christmas preparations, and a deployment date looming in the near future. This particular day was filled with a…
