Monthly Archives: March 2025
It’s always a good thing to pray for peace–among nations, in our families, in our communities, in our relationships, and in our hearts. As long, however, as sin remains in man, we have tendencies to self-centeredness, making idols of our comfort, our opinions, our possessions, our children, our possessions, and breaking the Ten Commandments. If you haven’t read them lately, Lent would be a good time to see if we commit sin in thought, word, and deed, and allow ourselves…..
I remember my dad singing this song with the Hendrick Hudson Male Chorus in Hudson, New York every spring in concert. The group of about fifty men gave concerts twice a year under the direction of R. Steele Phillips, my favorite music teacher ever. He taught me to sing, to play trumpet and baritone horn, and taught me a regents level course in music theory when I was in high school.
According to the Library of Congress, in 1884, Michael…..
We all need a bit of grace and mercy in our busy lives, don’t we? I need to post more than one of my Lenten poem-psalms according to the date. I’ve been living a fractured life lately, finding a new home for my sister, trying to publish Anthology 4 with my writers here at Glenbrooke, and juggling too many activities that jump in to remind me to “get a life.” I love that God numbers our days, that He provides…..
Do you rejoice, as I do, when you have an “Ah ha moment,” a time when you can relax and say things are going so well it’s hard to not smile? Remember a time when you looked forward to the day, or the accomplishment of a project, or a “free day” with no major obstacles in sight? It’s refreshing, isn’t it?
I think of the Twenty-third Psalm, where God says, “He restoreth my soul.”
After a time of stress, isn’t…..
Once again, dear readers, I beg forgiveness for not posting consistently. Yesterday was full from dawn to way past dusk with an unexpected but wonderful visit from grandchildren with interesting projects to complete. On Sunday, Kaley asked to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa. Who can refuse that? Sandwiched between using a four-day pass to Disney this week on school break, she wanted…..
I ask forgiveness. I did not get to post this yesterday. Forgive me for backdating it. For those of you who know, or even don’t know me, I have been dealing with intense difficulties dealing with my sister. She has recently been hospitalized for a whole month, is now in rehab, and as of yesterday, we are dealing with finding her a place to live immediately. For a while yesterday, it seemed the only alternative was a SNF, better known…..
When Christ said we had to become like little children to inherit the kingdom, I think some of us who have thought of ourselves as adults who “had our acts together and had developed a reasonably good sense of awareness, think that we have achieved some sort of discretion. We even feel proud, sometimes, of what we’ve learned or achieved. But Jesus said, come to Me with a complete sense of trust, a complete innocence so He can fill us…..
MY PSALM 307 SEEKING WISDOM
Almighty God, Creator of the Universe, Abba, Father,
I pray today for wisdom, Your guidance, Your direction.
Around me I hear constant babble,
Competing voices,
Rabid arguments,
Statements of fools parading as truth.
I need only hear Your still, small voice
As I come to You in prayer.
Proverbs chapter 18 describes the world we live in:
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. …..
From the moment of our conception, we are dying. Since the garden of Eden’s fiasco, through the darkness of the womb, birth trauma, reckless youth, through the ages of acquisition and vitality, to the “world is my oyster” golden age, to senioritis, we are on a path to death. While early Old Testament characters lived into the hundreds of years, we read that fourscore and ten may now be achieved. My husband and I have almost done it!
But, we…..
This Psalm is most appropriate for me today, and God in his wisdom when I wrote it several years ago, knew today would come. Today we have the status meeting for my sister Dorothy to determine where and when she will transfer to her permanent residence this side of heaven. As most of you who have been praying about this with us know, she was hospitalized with several major issues, including double pneumonia, congestive heart failure, and kidney insufficiency all…..