I love the story of the man methodically picking up and throwing starfish back in the ocean- one at a time. Someone ridiculed him and chided, “You’ll never be able to save all of them….why even bother- does it really make a difference?” He wisely replied, “It makes a difference to this one!” We can’t […]
Who among us hasn’t said this or at least thought it? Not once, but many times! Perhaps, you, like me, have an acute sense of “fairness”. When I was a teenager, I would champion for the weak and get on my soapbox to preach fairness and equity 🙂 Life seemed it continually doled out “situations” […]
“You’re a piece of trash!” ……. …”I never wanted you!”……….. “You ruined my life.” …………….”I should have had an abortion.”……………. “I’m through with you.” …………………”You never do anything right!” …………………. “Why did I ever have kids?”………………. “You’re the biggest mistake I’ve made with my life.”………………. “I wish you had never been born.” You […]
Family is the Template God created to illuminate His ever circling love for us as our Heavenly Father. I spend so much time & effort, BUILDING our family into a circle of faith and support, bound together by the invincible cords of love, that I tend to forget one very intricate “God-thing” that transformed my […]
My Birth Mother’s Choice [Tweet “How can I ever thank my #birthMom enough, for the #gift of #life? #courage #choice “] Kathleen prayed she wasn’t pregnant. Her heart was filled with hopes and dreams for the future; she was only seventeen, not married, and the year was 1958! (Not a good year to be […]
Do you remember the story of the two women coming before King Solomon….. fighting about who “owned” the baby in question When Solomon offered to cut the baby in half so that they could “share” the baby, the true mother became evident by her sacrificial love. ~ I read an even more bizarre news […]
Saige has $3732.50 Woohoo! and THANK YOU! THANK YOU! (and of course if you’d like to help round that up to $4000.00 🙂 Keep making donations at Saige- Reece’s Rainbow I just had to share my granddaughter, Finley’s, solution to the problem of orphans. 🙂 Don’t you just love the faith of children?! Perhaps, if […]
If you’ve been following the * “Saige Saga” you know, the quest began simply enough. Like most people, we try to make giving intrinsic to our life- even though it may be small and meager; besides tithing, we like saving all our spare change at Christmas time because Bethany has to give to […]
Alas, flu has come to visit our home & I hope and pray it doesn’t visit everyone! Last night, Moriah and Bethie boo were up -vomiting & I’ll spare you all the other gory details…. But even as I held heads and prayed, I was contemplating my Christmas wish. On the other side of the […]