Archive for May, 2008

I’m leaving on a jet plane….

Friday, May 16th, 2008

But I do know when I’ll be back again! Tomorrow morning I’m flying to Milwaukee to visit my brothers and sisters and their families. I have a new grand nephew to see and snuggle, and I’m looking forward to that, as well as seeing everyone else. I’ll fly back home on Friday. In the meantime, [...]

Nip Cancer in the Bud

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Karen at Simply A Musing blog is doing us a great service by hosting a cancer screening question and answer session with the Texas Oncology Physicians.
I hate screenings too, but they’re important if we want to Nip Cancer in the Bud! Spread the word by going to Karen’s blog, grabbing the button, and posting it [...]

Full Moon

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

When I flopped down on the sofa tonight and looked up, I saw the full moon framed in the dormer window of our living room. It looks smaller in the picture, probably because I don’t know what I’m doing when I pick up a camera. But you get the idea. The carved head is [...]

The immodest season

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Not that there’s a deficit of it year-round, but summer brings a surge of unabashed immodesty. I’m sorry to say that Christian women are not immune to giving in to the prevailing fashions and sometimes I’m startled and concerned at what I see. The motivation that determines how we dress should not be to look [...]

May Recipe Roundup: International Recipes

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

This month’s Roundup is on Thursday the 15th, and hosted by Ann at Whatever Things… Check out the other recipes linked there and you might get to be the winner of her GIVEAWAY!
The folks in Colorado are known for their love of bison and beef, so it seems appropriate to post these recipes, which were [...]

My new blog: Welcome to our Table

Monday, May 12th, 2008

For several years, I cooked meals for the guests who came to our counseling retreat. I handed out recipes left and right and finally put together a little cookbook that we used as a fund raiser for the ministry. That sold out and at long last I’ve put many of the recipes on a new [...]

Wise Words

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Contentment involves putting the best possible interpretation on God’s dealings with you. ~Lou Priolo
ht: Radical Womanhood

Love Consecrates the Humblest Act

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Love consecrates the humblest act
And haloes mercy’s deeds;
It sheds a benediction sweet
And hallows human needs.
When in the shadow of the cross
Christ knelt and washed the feet
Of His disciples He gave us
A sign of love complete.
Love serves and willing stoops to serve;
What Christ in love so true
Has freely done for one and all,
Let us now gladly [...]

Jumping on the meme bandwagon

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Isn’t it nice when an interesting meme comes up to give us something to post when we’re running dry? I’ve read Lisa’s and Kim’s and Kim’s, and I’m jumping in. Here’s the “one word meme.”
1. Your cell phone​?​ .​.​.​.​.​. needed
2. Your signi​fican​t other​?​.​.​.​.​. husband
3. Your hair?​ .​.​.​.​.​.​. gray
4. Your mothe​r?​ .​.​.​. heaven
5. Your fathe​r?​.​.​.​.​.​.​.​ [...]

from Spurgeon…

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The marvelous incarnation of God in heaven, with all the amazing condescension and humiliation that attended it, is ours. The bloody sweat, the scourge, the cross are ours forever. Whatever blissful consequences flow from perfect obedience, finished atonement, resurrection, ascension, or intercession, all are ours by His own gift. Upon His breastplate He is now [...]