When God’s Heart Aches
One of the beauties of springtime in Tennessee — and in the rest of the country, too, I assume — is the blooming of our state flower, the iris, my mother’s favorite flower. Iris Time in Tennessee Mother’s Watercolor Iris…
Category Creation
The Teeming Waters and Sky of the Gulf of Mexico
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…