Devotions and Stories for Life’s Journey

I hope you find what you’re looking for today. Maybe you’d llike some encouragement, a place to rest your mind, or a prompt to restore your focus on what’s really important to your well-being.
That’s what this space is for. I’m honored to meet you here with short devotions tailored for those of us who sometimes need to pause and recalibrate.
Welcome to my blog!
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Moving from our family home should have been an ordeal, but it wasn’t. Though we loved our spot in the country where we raised our children, cared for foster children, welcomed strangers and extended family for Thanksgiving feasts, managed 4-H animals, shot our guns and…
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Can Poor and Rich be Best Friends?
I have a new friend, and she lives in a higher income bracket than I do. Will we be able to become close, lifelong friends? That’s kinda hard, you know. When we lived in Monroe, our well produced water that stained our fixtures…
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The “Thank Dad Here” House
With our tummies full of chilled root beer and the window rolled down on hot summer evenings, I squeezed my bony knees together under my cotton dress, anticipating the moment we’d pass the designated house. I practiced the thank-you-for-the-root-beer-dad speech in my…