Daily writing promptDescribe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?View all responses As an abandoned child living in the home of an aunt who was a stranger to me, I had to find comfort in the familiar. That was the Bible I had received from school, the little... Continue Reading →
Finding the Strength to Endure in a Faith Community: Sunday Devotion
Hebrews 10: 23-25 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.... Continue Reading →
Drive As Though Everybody Is a Student Driver
Daily writing promptIf you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?View all responses Often when my husband is driving, I have the occasion to be glad for the other drivers that he is the one behind the wheel and not me. Douglas had driven for so long that he anticipated when someone was about... Continue Reading →
When Eden Comes Close: What Do You See?
Image Credit: John Towner @ Unsplash The beauty of the sunset, gold shining on the water. Reminded me of that first garden from long ago. What it must have been like to walk beside the Creator, Savoring all the beauty that nature had to show. Hurrah for us that we are still loved despite our... Continue Reading →
Share Your World
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, June 2023 I haven't participated in a long time in Share Your World by Pensitivity 101 in a while, but I think January 1, 2024, is a good day to start again. Did you stay up to see in the New Year last night? I didn't stay up to necessarily see... Continue Reading →
Let Love Be Eternal and Faithful: A New Year’s Devotion
Lamentations 3:19-26 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your... Continue Reading →
A Fresh Hope, A New Year
Porto, Portugal June 2023 Hope in the new year. Fresh chances to change our lives. Stay forward-looking. Â Written for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #495: Fresh and Hope. Happy New Year to Everyone.
Staying Loving in a World Where Hate Wins Elections
Daily writing promptWhat are your biggest challenges?View all responses As 2024 enters, I am already dreading the election commercials and the ugliness of politics in an election year. Since 2020, it seems that the United States has been the epicenter of Hate, as state representatives redraw voting maps that dilute or reduce the power of... Continue Reading →
This Too Will Pass: Weekend Prompt
Life can change quickly. In the time to wink the eye, Difficulties cease. Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt #344 for Sammiscribbles: Wink in 13 words exactly.
Getting Old Makes Loving Food Nearly Impossible: RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt
Eating changed for me. Foods that I loved don’t love me. My tummy aches now. Not quite a great thought, but I wanted to write something. Written for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge: Tummy and Ache.
