Yesterday I worked on the lesson "God Created the Gulf of Mexico" for America the Beautiful. This is a brand new lesson for this update, so I enjoyed learning about the world's largest gulf and the Gulf Coast of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, which some appropriately call ... View Post
The Gift of Water
As a little girl, I learned to sing "The Mulberry Bush" with the lines: This is the way we wash our clothes, Wash our clothes, wash our clothes. This is the way we wash our clothes, So early Monday morning . . . and so forth. Last night I changed the words to: Tonight I get to brush my ... View Post
If only I had known then, what I know now.
Ray and I were with two of our granddaughters yesterday afternoon. Supper was ready but they begged to show us their big surprise first. Excitedly, they led us to their front yard. With glee they showed us these. As I relished the sight of these annual gifts of life from the hand of God and ... View Post
The Dreams We Don’t Feel Adequate to Accomplish
One day this week, I saw this tri-colored feather. It was less than an inch long. I think it is a breast feather from a female cardinal. I like to examine the small things that make up a whole. When I walk in the woods, one view I relish is the one beneath my feet, like the pinecones, leaves, ... View Post
A God-Given Responsibility to Younger Generations
Yesterday was one of those perfect southern winter "warm spells" as the old folks said when I was a child. A bird's sweet tweet greeted me the moment I stepped outside. The sky was a beautiful shade of blue. Pine needles, pine cones, and leaves lay beneath my feet. The temperature was at that just ... View Post
Our Wise, Intelligent, and Loving God
When Stacy Studebaker of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service took this little guy's (or gal's) picture, he was living on Kodiak Island in Alaska. This furry creature is one of the six land mammals that are native to Kodiak Island, which is the largest of Alaska's 2,000 islands. This ... View Post
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