From Small Beginnings
My art teacher exudes encouragement. Two of us students completed paintings recently. As usual, she took photos of us with our paintings. This time I asked Ray to take one of me with Miss Judy. For this painting, I copied…
Category Inspiring Stories
Joy and Pain All Wrapped Up Together
For many women, the first time we experience joy and pain all wrapped up together is when we give birth to our first child. Jesus understands that. He said: Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her…
When the People Stopped and Watched What God Was Doing
God creates one beautiful moment after another all over the earth. The sun rises. The sun sets. Waves crash. Turtles hatch. Lambs nurse. Clouds soar. So many marvelous things are happening all around us that too often we don’t stop…
Precious, Precious Memories of Sweet, Sweet Folks
Yesterday I mentioned how Mother, my brother Steve, and I spent our Saturday evenings. Daddy wasn’t with us on the first of our Saturday evening errands but he was at our final destination of Boyd’s Market. Saturday was his longest…
I’m Thankful for All You Do
Yesterday I came across these adorable embroidered linens from 1943, which are in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. They are part of a days-of-the-week needlecraft kit. According to the description on the Smithsonian…
One Kind Man in a Parking Lot
After we left the St. Louis Art Museum last week, we drove to the nearby Turtle Playground in Forest Park. I was excited about returning to Turtle Playground as I remembered being there with our son and his sons back…