Always learning

Yesterday was not a good day…I totally blew it.  I got upset and when I get upset I tend to be very, very selfish.  In that state of mind I can rationalize my reactions and responses as “right” and “justified”. After I calmed down I saw...

It’s an olive leaf!

Have you ever been down, thinking there was never going to be a reason to hope?  Wondering when the next ray of sunshine would fall across your window?  I’m reading through Genesis right now and trying to understand what Noah must have felt all that time in the...

Instances of tenderness

I’ve begun reading through the Bible again this year and my reading has me starting in Genesis.  I think a good place to start…at the beginning! The creation story always amazes me.  I can’t even wrap my mind around the entirety of it and to think...

What’s in store for 2011?

I have absolutely no idea!  I don’t believe any of us can make plans and be certain they are going to go through. Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”  Why, you do not...

What’s normal?

Been thinking about normalcy lately.  What’s normal for you?  Now that I’m living in Tala I have a different kind of normal than I had in the States.  Here it’s normal for me to wonder if the electricity will stay on for any length of time;...

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