"You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you (I have planted you), that you might go and bear fruit..."- John 15:16 (AMP)I noticed a large patch of bright red tulips growing in between my garage and my next door neighbor's fence. It formed a...
You can learn a lot from going to the market. The longer I live the more I learn just from going there with my eyes, ears, and heart open. The latest bit of wisdom that blessed me there came just the other day. A young mother was walking with her little child while...
It was the first storm of the season.Up until this mid-January night, our quiet Southern Canada town had been experiencing a very mild winter. Or, as some might have called it, a long, cold fall! Our world had prepared itself for winter. The leaves had fallen at the...
We were driving through Idaho, the potato capital of the US. Our destination was Grand Teton National Park. (What a name for a park, especially for someone who understands French!) We found ourselves on a rural road surrounded by fields of ripe-looking corn (not...
It has been a thoroughly frozen February here in the mountains of my home. The temperatures have been extremely cold with nasty, biting winds to go with them. My water pipes have frozen solid three different times and even my Saint Bernard hasn’t enjoyed walking...
My husband and I, and our son, and his family, had been invited to our daughter and her husband’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. It has always been a tradition in our family to say grace and state the things we are thankful for as we sit around the Thanksgiving table....
It was a dark and stormy day. The clouds were low and unloading a torrent of rain as I drove home from the city. It wasn’t quite time to be driving with headlights on, but all the vehicles around me were, because of the poor visibility. I drove with both hands on the...