A few days before Christmas my husband and I joined members of a local church to distribute groceries to the families of farmworkers in a rural community near where we live. Though this is a weekly ministry, on this day, they also threw a Christmas party for some 300 people. (Typically, they serve 300-500 people once [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Inspirational Thoughts on Writing and Life’
April 11, 2007
Season’s of a Woman’s Life
The following is an excerpt from LETTERS FROM GOD FOR WOMEN, God’s Faithful Promises for You, Harvest House Publishers (a little book I wrote a few years ago).
I treasure you every day.
My precious one,
Consider the seasons. Winter, with its new-fallen snow, covers the seeds of new life in its frozen depths. Spring, with its [...]
March 31, 2007
A Nap in the Spring Sunshine
This morning I walked my usual two miles in our 200 acre back yard. Also, as usual, I stopped to talk to the animals. Just call me Dr. Doolittle! I have my favorites. After the East African vultures hatched an egg last year then settled in to raise their chick, I talked to them [...]
October 17, 2006
Sacred Spaces
I watched a giant swallowtail this morning as she gracefully dipped and sailed from sage to verbena. She wasn’t alone. Around this magnificent creature flitted a colorful cloud of zebra swallowtails, queens, monarchs and many others I couldn’t name — dancing silently together like falling leaves or petals in a breeze. This time it wasn’t [...]
October 10, 2006
Creation Care
We’ve just returned from a long weekend spent on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. On our last night there, our friends took us to a hidden and almost magical place in the Alabama Hills, just below Mt. Whitney, where we built a campfire and enjoyed a meal prepared by the [...]
September 17, 2006
Musings on a Sunday Afternoon
I came across the following poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson this afternoon. It’s familiar, though I hadn’t read it in years. I rediscoverd it in TREASURES FROM THE SANCTUARY FOR THE SPIRIT, a little book a friend in England sent last month to lift my spirits during those dark days before surgery.
To laugh often and [...]
