St. Augustine, Florida 2021 You whisper sweet words. Like two birds of a feather, We share wondrous love. Written for the RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #400: Feather and Whisper.
Becoming Women Who Influence the World: Wednesday Devotional
Numbers 27: 1-7 They came forward and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah’s followers, who banded together against the Lord, but he died for his own sin and left no sons. Why should our father’s name disappear... Continue Reading →
Don’t Measure Your Value by Someone Else’s Ruler
She was quite serious when she looked me straight in the eyes and said, "You aren't our kind of people!" I had been minding my own business, as I waited for my flight to start boarding. The lady speaking was upset that I was standing in the line for priority boarding. She didn't believe me... Continue Reading →
Answering Fandango’s Provocative Question #159
Fandango asked the following question, and I felt compelled to answer it: If there are only three things in life that truly matter, what do you think they are and why did you choose those three? In no particular order, my answers to the question are: Being Loved as a Child: it is in being... Continue Reading →
Beware of People With Vacant Hearts
Photo Credit to Carter Saunders @ Unsplash He spoke sweet words from between smiling lips, And she missed his pernicious danger from the start. No one had schooled her on what to look for In a man with a vacancy in his dastardly heart. He made a quip about women as easy pickings, That it... Continue Reading →
Old Age: One-Liner Wednesday
Feed on This: Old Age takes a lot of courage and being able to say, "Oh, Well!" when the next ache appears!Regina, Help from Heaven Written for the One-Liner Wednesday Challenge from Linda G. Hill.
An Authentic Fast: Justice, Empathy, and Kindness: Wednesday Devotional
Isaiah 58:6-7 Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to... Continue Reading →
To Be Appreciated and Valued is the Cat’s Meow
I was chosen to be profiled for the Religious Studies Department GSU-62 Program. I was interviewed, and you can see the profile here. I think that sometimes when we have retired and all of our children have left home, that as older men and women, we think that we have contributed all that we have... Continue Reading →