Forgiving Yourself

Forgiving others is hard enough but when it comes to forgiving yourself, I have found it’s so much harder to do. I think by nature we are much harder on ourselves so when we do something we know is not right we beat ourselves up over it. I will never forget the day that I […]

Piercing the Darkness Book Review

Piercing the Darkness book review

With the murder of an innocent child, children taken from their widowed father by the state, dirty cops, new age religion taking over the school curriculum, strange things happening in a tiny town, and a young woman by the name of Sally Beth Roe caught in the midst of it all, Piercing The Darkness by […]

A Child’s Bill of Rights Poem

Train a child in the way he should go; and, even when old, he will not depart from it ~ Proverbs 22:6 This keeps coming to mind as I’m raising teenagers. Maybe it can help some of you that are raising teenagers or even pre-teens for that matter also. My son came home from school […]

Power of Words Illustration

Video Illustration of the Power of Words A couple months ago someone shared on Facebook a video that has forever impacted the way I look at words. I’ve alway known that words are very powerful  but never considered the way in which we place the words can change our lives as well as those around […]

Rainbow Cake

I LOVE Pinterest!!! Since I have always been a visual person this site completely does it for me. If I see something that attracts my eye I’m able to click on the image, pin it to a board and find out how to make it, buy it or just go back to a quote I […]

Letting Go…

My wonderful sister Melissa posted this in her notes section of Facebook the other day and I can’t help but to keep going back to it and reading it over and over and over again. This was one of my mom’s many clippings she had that spoke volumes to her. I’m finding it’s in these […]

Encourage One Another

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~ Norman B. Rice This morning I woke up to a wonderful message on Facebook from a dear friend of mine from High School. His message started out with, “I’ve always meant to tell you how refreshing it is hearing […]

Carry each other’s burdens

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. ~ Galatians 6:2 Do you know how hard it is to write a Thought for the day when watching a 2 1/2 yr. old, 1 yr old and 2 week old twins??? Let’s just say that I had many thoughts […]

Expectations of Others

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 Sorry this is so long… I guess I had a lot of thoughts […]

Overcoming Obstacles

Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. ~ Psalm 71:20 This past Sunday I had the opportunity to just lounge around and watch movies all day. My daughter suggested that we watch 127 Hours […]