Family Pandemic Flu Planning

I volunteer with our congregation in the health and care ministry.  Today the alert level was raised to 5, with one school closing in our area.  I am trying to put together some things for our congregation for Sunday, and thought many of you may find a link I found beneficial.  Preparing for a pandemic [...]

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The Top Of The Stairs

When this old world starts getting me down and people are just too much
for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs
and all my cares just drift right into space.

Welcome friends at theInspired Room ! Everyone needs a little spot they can go to and find a [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Anger

“In the realm of mental energy, what we give to others stays with us”
-Marianne Willamson

This is a quote for me to memorize this week. I am ticked off, angry, feel misunderstood, and don’t feel like I have been dealt with honestly in  a situation.  But I can’t stand what this anger is doing to [...]

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Forget-me-not

Warm sunny days have caused the Forget-me-not flowers to bloom at our house this week.  I have a stone path that leads to the front door of our home and on each side is a flower bed that runs along beside it. In the early spring it is lined with these sweet blue flowers.  A [...]

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Our New Girl

My daughter and I decided we wanted a big dog. My husband is the little dog lover, but I like a big dog. Not that I don’t adore our little dog, but her  heart belongs to him alone. We named her Lucy, and just found out she has her papers and is a full black [...]

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A Spring Welcome

“Some houses are forbidding, cheerless and indefinably hostile.  Others seem to welcome the stranger who steps inside.  Dolly Clare’s was one such house.  I felt that I was heir to a great deal of happiness, and I blessed the shades of those who had lived in and loved this little home, and who had now [...]

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Sacred Life Sunday: Still Water

Magnified view, click on image and drag to move.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
In fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I [...]

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Hope Blooms

Where flowers bloom so does hope.-Lady Bird Johnson

My dad visited us in Washington state one spring when the cherry trees bloomed, and was amazed with their huge bouquets of pink blossoms.  He was from Arkansas where the small dogwoods brighten the brown woods with their small flash of pink and white.  While they are lovely [...]

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Flower Girl

If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom,
maybe your soul has never been in bloom.  ~Audra Foveo

Today we all go back to our routine after the Easter holiday.  This year we had a house full with not only family, but a few friends joining [...]

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Daffodil Valley

A house with daffodils in it is a house lit up,
whether or no the sun be shining outside.
~ A.A. Milne
These pictures were taken in the valley at a bulb farm.  Fields of yellow daffodils fill the valley with their sweet, bright blossoms.  They are picked to sell, and the bulbs are sold in the [...]

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