In celebration of my new book about a Shaker girl – The Outsider – coming out in a few weeks (August 1), I’m sharing some of my research with you this week. Here are some sayings attributed to the Shakers. They were a very practical people in many of their ways and they believed in “putting their hands to work …
And then the phone goes crazy
Hi everybody. I know. I know. It’s not Saturday or Sunday, but my computer modem went belly-up last Friday or Saturday. I don’t know which day. Things were so crazy around here last week what with Bible School every night. I already think I don’t have enough hours in the day to get half of what I need to get …
VBS and Finding Time to Get It All Done
Hi again, everybody. Are you like me and not finding enough hours in the day to do everything that needs doing? Truth is, I’ve been letting a lot of things that need doing slip by not done. I’m going to have to get going on cleaning my house soon or well, I guess it’ll just get more in need of …
An Old-fashioned Frolic
Hi everybody. Have you ever been invited to a frolic? My father used to tell us a story about when he was a little boy and his granddaddy invited him to come over for a frolic. His young mind thought up all sorts of interesting and fun things his granddaddy might have planned, but when he got there, his granddaddy …
Creative Moments
Hi everybody. Hope you had a tremendous week with good blessings chasing you everywhere you went. You know sometimes we stay so busy that we don’t always pay attention to the blessings around us. At church we have a Thanksgiving and Praise List in our bulletin where we mention special blessings of the week and those everyday blessings too. Things …
Showers of April Activities
Isn’t it amazing how quickly the weeks roll by? Here we are in April already. Did any of you get caught on April Fool jokes? My five-year-old granddaughter tried to pull one on me by saying it was going to snow 3 feet. When I looked at her with a bit of disbelief, she quickly changed it to 3 inches. …
Colds, red noses and deadlines
Hey everybody. Hope you have all escaped the cold bug, but alas, I did not. Our preacher came down with something the week before Christmas and managed to pass it along to everybody in our church. We have a small congregation (average around 40) so it wasn’t exactly an epidemic, but there’s been a lot of coughing going on while …