… fun? …horrible? …looked forward to? …dreaded? It seems that the word “birthday” brings up a wide range of emotions, depending on who you’re looking at when the subject comes up. And usually the younger the person the more their face shows excitement, and the older the person the more their eyes roll and they …
My last post got my sister and I talking, and we both agreed that our conversation would make a good blog entry… to see how many other people are realizing the same things we are. As she wrote in her comment, “I have been impressed recently as to the fact that insecurity and lack of …
My brother just wrote in his blog about two miracles that have happened in his life. He asked people to write in and share theirs. I shared mine, but it got me to thinking. There have been plenty of times in my life when God has answered my prayers, but those times are not as …
I’m sure we’re all familiar with the scripture where Jesus says that we must become like little children to enter the kingdom of heaven… but I have to say that you get a whole new multi-faceted view of this scripture when you have children of your own. My youngest is five, and since she’s the …
I got to fly for the first time in years, last week. I have to say that it was awe-inspiring. When the plane rose up above the clouds for the first time, I was awe-struck. It’s a whole new landscape up there. I sat there, overwhelmed almost by the view, but knowing that it’s just …
What does it really mean to trust God? When some part of your world is caving in… when you find yourself being forced to deal with things that you never in a million years thought would touch you… when you find yourself thinking things that you never would have believed you could think… how do …
Obviously it’s been about five weeks since I wrote last. After a whole winter of praising God that none of my family caught any colds or flus, we had one of each go through the family in the past month. *sigh* So it’s been a bit of a rough month. There’s nothing like getting sick …
You know when some part of your life isn’t going well… and after a while you find yourself going ’round and ’round in circles in your head trying to find a way for things to get fixed… a “way out”… and you realize that there ISN’T a way out… that somehow you’re trapped in a …
Why did I choose “Hope Is Calling” for a title? Well… first I tried my name, then I tried my favorite Bible verse (Ephesians 1:17-19), then I tried my favorite song, phrases from the song, phrases that I call myself, bits of misc stuff…and everything was taken! Talk about feeling unoriginal! I even tried a …