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“Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.” — Jacob Rees-Mogg When my children were still young and often had to wait for something, such as their mother getting something done for them, I would often tell them that patience was a great virtue. I’m sure they didn’t consider the wisdom of my words, but instead wanted to shut their …
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. I’ve heard many say it is their favorite holiday – a day when we pause to gather with families and friends and remember and think about our blessings. Some say it is a uniquely American …
This week I can celebrate my “gotcha” day for Frankie. Seven years ago I found myself without a dog after my sweet Oscar died of bone cancer. Oscar was only seven. Oscar was the next thing to a perfect dog, and I had hoped to have him for a few more years, but cancer is no respecter of age in …
“Sometimes someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever.” -Anonymous My husband and I celebrated an anniversary yesterday. We have been together now almost our whole lives. When we met at a high school football game years and years ago, I was fourteen and he was eighteen. I was a freshman. …
Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. ~Catherine Pulsifier We had an early Thanksgiving dinner at our church today. We’ve been having this special time together as a church family for many years. My mother used to like to go with me to these special dinners. We used to have them in the evening, …
I’m a little nervous about doing this post. SIMB (Shaking in my boots) because I think I’ve had TMB (too many birthdays) to figure out all these shortcuts in the world of texting. See the picture. That’s where I am. Still thinking a fountain pen and notebook has to be the best way to write anything. But alas, I …
A few years ago, I strayed away from my historical novels and wrote a few cozy mysteries set in the fictional town of Hidden Springs, Kentucky where, as the picture above says, things are sweet and sentimental as well as a little sinister. After the first one, Murder at the Courthouse, was published, I did a magazine interview about …
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic. ~Fay Weldon Blackberry season is over for this year, but my writing season is just beginning to ripen. At …
The spider skillfully grasps with its hands, and it is in kings’ palaces. …Proverbs 30:28 (NKJ) One of the things that are especially fun to see when I go walking on the farm in the early morning while the dew is heavy on the grass are the spiderwebs. Sometimes before the hay is cut in the field, I see dozens …
God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines, of never-failing skill; He fashions up his bright designs, and works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, the clouds that you much dread, Are big with mercy and will break in blessings …