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Linking with Diedra Riggs and The Sunday Community Psalm 18:2 You , oh Lord are my rock. my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I will trust. The ground surrounding the rock changes . . . muddy, soft in rain . . . firm in sunshine . . . gives away in…
March 2008 I am in a small group and we are to ponder our answer to Jesus’ question, “What do you really want from me?” I found something I wrote back in February and it captured the essence of what I want right now – God, I need to hear from You . . . sense…
The setting: My son and his wife live in an OLD stone farm house. In the back yard is an old root cellar…. a weird focal point to the back yard. The kids love to climb over it. (for the grandmas reading this, the door is secure!) Tonight it’s back yard Graduation Party for my…
The model airplanes are flying again, diving low, at times skimming the lake and rising again, flipping, rolling, banking to the left and then to the right, at times simply flying through the air. I think of how the safety of the plane depends on the skill of…
( I wrote this last summer, June, 24, 2010) Today I see them . . . the baby ducks. I look for them every year, It’s already June And I have been wondering where they are. Maybe it’s been too cold – Too. . . . . something? And I am surprised by how …
from www.ToddHiestand.com – August 2007 post. Thought provoking and an important concept. August 16, 2007 Tonight, my parents hosted a little get together for all of their friends (many were friends who have known me since I was just a little weasel) to come and welcome Mason into our family. It really was a…
This was written September 17, 2005, about 6 weeks before my brother died. Dear God: The fear that plays around the edges of my heart is that this enjoyment of scripture, this new way of studying Your word will fade away (reading for the pause, writing to You, God and being quiet as I…
From my May 2008 album: Mason, how you love your blankets . . . all five of them! The colorful one is your “Guatemala blanket” and the blue/yellow/white on is the one I made for we were waiting for you to come home to us. When you wake up, you point and say “it” for…
From my May 2008 album: Mason, how you love your blankets . . . all five of them! The colorful one is your “Guatemala blanket” and the blue/yellow/white on is the one I made for we were waiting for you to come home to us. When you wake up, you point and say “it” for…
I created this card to send to my Grandchildren. If they lived next door like in the olden days when family’s grew up together, I’d take them for walks and we’d look at God’s big creative world together, but since we don’t, …….. Created for my Grandchildren on May 11, 2010 I have a friend who…