Year: 2004

My inclination is to still be angry at those who wronged me. To be frustrated by the “circumstances” that made them do what they did. But… I know, I really know, that is not what Jesus did. Life is not a bowl of cherries as they say, but in fact an endless series of opportunities…

Today I have had $6000 taken from me, along with that, the chance to make at least $60,000 more… and along with that, rejection after rejection in e-mails, and phone calls… And the mower wouldn’t start. It has been a completely crushing day, and this is my day-off. My day of relaxing and re-energizing for…

PHOTO CREDIT: nfl.com We remain big Buffalo Bills fans, even though they lost the game… gave UP the game… on the LAST play of the game today – 4th down… a crazy catch at the back of the end zone. Perhaps a glimpse at how the season will go this year? 🙂 0-1 and counting…

You hear people talk about God giving them faith to do something, and perhaps you think… that’s silly! Faith comes from ME, not from God. He gives me something to have faith IN, but not the faith. Well, I would agree with that. But I would add that perhaps there is some truth in the…

Sometimes it’s just really fun to see how and when God does stuff. Earlier this weekend, I commented to Jen – only half joking – that we really had no money (even the cushion we had for a while in savings was gone, because we spent it on what it was saved for, the new…

We came out of the coffee house last night refreshed and encouraged and pumped full of wonderful confections. 🙂 Life was good, the people were friendly, we had just shared some really great stuff about the Kingdom and our God that hopefully encouraged everyone to enjoy life with Him even more. I was loading our…

So, today has been crazy once again… just spent MOST ALL of the day trying to catch up on financial arrangements… moving money here, tracking money there, looking for ways to creatively make everything happen… and… God is good… he continues to provide for us even when I do a bad job of keeping track….

What a happy girl! She is so fun!!! This is our (complete) bountiful harvest from my super gardening skills this summer. It was our first attempt… 🙂

Sometimes, when life is so busy, it actually helps me a LOT to do something totally different. 🙂 The lists for today are completely overwhelming again (I’m almost out of the woods, though, by the way…) but I had made a commitment some time ago to play ball with my ball-playin’ friends starting in September….

Was just outside taking the trash to the curb, and as I was walking along the sidewalk, the sun hit it just perfectly revealing tons of spider web crosswalks and a few snail or slug trails. And as I walked by I hit a few more higher-altitude spiders… We are not alone… 🙂