Category: Beliefs
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Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Colossians 3:12 On the morning/early afternoon, I found my mom had died, I went on my weekly grocery shopping trip. I needed things to be “normal.” As I checked out, I mentioned to the cashier that she…
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A present that I got for myself was a new journaling Bible. God has been giving me strength during this difficult season of my life. As I said, I went back to Sweet Blessings scripture writing plan at the beginning of this month. Oldest was going through his first break up so I needed to…
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The day after my mom’s death, my aunt and I went to the funeral home. Afterwards, we made memories. We visited Aullwood Garden and just talked. Then I took her to my 2 favorite places in the city – Wegerzyn Garden and Second Street Market. Places I had gone with my mom. While…
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Three years ago, and almost 2 months ago, my life changed. It was dinner time. We were getting ready to eat so that we could go to see Weird Al Yankovic. My phone rang and I saw that it was my mom. I didn’t always answer the phone when she called. I would…
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I wish I would have stayed in bed. Some days are like that. Lately, it seems as though those are more and more days like that. However, it is usually moments that are fleeting. Not the entire day. Today was one of those days. Listening to my son rant and rage about how he is…
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7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. 8 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven…
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Actually I should say tornadoes. Yesterday was a beautiful day. High 60’s/ low 70’s, cloud cover most of the day so it was not too hot.
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Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my sister’s death. I honored her memory by releasing a balloon at a local park. I went to a local park to release the balloon instead of at her grave. When I go to the Wegerzyn Gardens, I feel a lot of peace. The gardens are absolutely gorgeous.…
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Warning: This blog post is going to be raw and real. It’s difficult for me to type up but necessary. Some of the details are going to be a little blurry. August 28, 2016 was a regular Sunday. I had church in the morning. Then we were going to eat dinner at my mother-in-law’s house.…
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As many of you know, I have a monarch butterfly tattoo on my left shoulder. The top of the tattoo has purple dots because that was my sister’s favorite color. One top wing has 2 dots which represents the fact there were 2 of us and she was 2 years younger than me. The other…
