A few weeks ago, someone called a local radio station and asked the host if their pets would go to heaven. In a rather disdaining voice, the host said, “No. Your pets do not go to heaven.” I wondered if he’d actually ever read the bible scriptures which do not negate the fact of pets […]
Category Archives: Joy
True Story: An acquaintance said she heard someone pounding on her front door… she didn’t say knocking, she said ‘pounding!’ She went to answer it and a determined woman was there who demanded, “Where on earth did you get your mail box? I’ve been looking all over for the past 2 days and I can’t […]
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead…” Oscar Wilde ~But how would one do that, some may ask: Effort, practice, study, and determined will are the answer- It starts with the very little things: a service, a kindness, a prayer, a good deed, […]
Close your eyes and see The singular life that’s yours~ Smile in wonderment… Michele Marie
This morning I grabbed my coffee and woke up the dog to do her morning routine outside. (This is ‘Winnie’ -our miniature daschund) I accompanied her outside as lately she seems needy- she doesn’t want to be outside by herself – so I took my coffee and decided to sit outside for awhile so she’d […]
Academia: “Write of roses, daffodils, and violets, White linen, drownings, and yellow-wallpaper creeping madness” If I write: This artist will write of your painted rainbow mists– Blue mornings, pink horizons, and golden oceans! If I write: This gray moth will write of Your stained-glass-monarch-butterfly universe! If I write: This traveler will write of worlds that collide The Pacific and […]
In the race for Christmas Day success we often forget why Christmas exists. Stopped in our tracks and overwhelmed by work, we have the choice to become negative and anxious, or to see the moment as a signal reminding us to slow down and pray. The shepherds of old were keeping watch over their flock […]
Cat pictures are of our very own ‘Holly’~ She was left in a cardboard box at the back door of the veterinarian’s office on a VERY cold December day at 3 or 4 weeks old. She was saved from freezing to death as she was a feral kitten, flea infested, and had a distended stomach. We took […]
In Emilie Barnes book “More Hours in My Day” I read the story of a woman who was upset because her husband wanted her to pack his lunch everyday. She didn’t want to do it. You see, they weren’t getting along very well. So then Emilie asked her something like, “If the Lord were to […]
A Giving Love A true giving love Bleeding its’ life, drop by drop Will not soon die off Michele Marie
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