• Homemaking - Uncategorized

    Our Container Gardening Ideas for 2025

    March 26, 2025 - By 

    With signs of spring popping up all around us–crocus blooming, robins returning, buds coming out on the cotoneasters–I am thinking it is time to get my spring and summer garden plans finalized! This year will be different from other years as we live in a rental property now. I don’t have a reason to invest large amounts of money into garden soil amendments, rearranging the landscaping, or constructing large garden beds, even if I felt like I was “allowed” to do those things. Really, all we are required and encouraged to do with our yard is keep the grass growing…

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    Practical Application of “The Princess, the Dragon, and the King” Part 4

    March 17, 2025 - By 

    This week I am wrapping up my series on my journey through depression with the final portion of my conference talk. In this part, I focus on truths and practices anyone can make part of their lives in order to lessen and/or relieve emotional distress. Of course, I am not a doctor or health professional, and my counsel here is not to be taken as healthcare advice. I simply aim to encourage anyone struggling with similar things as I did by sharing my story and the steps that have helped me personally. So, what can I tell you that will…

  • Faith Talk - Uncategorized - Writing Life

    Journey: Five Minute Fridays

    March 14, 2025 - By 

    This post is part of Five Minute Fridays Link-Ups. Here is my post for this week’s prompt: Journey. Time begins now…. As I considered this week’s prompt, I was reminded of the study I have been doing in the book of I Peter. In this letter to the dispersed church, Peter encourages the believers to live as “sojourners and exiles” in the world. This world is not their final destination. Heaven is our home, and in the meantime, we are to live in this world in a way that shows were are different. We have an identity that is in Christ,…

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    Reading Report, Vol. 25: February Wrap-Up and March Current Reads

    March 5, 2025 - By 

    You wouldn’t really think that February being routinely two days shorter than the other months would make that much of a difference, and yet, every year I find myself surprised that it is March already! But since March brings us longer days with more light and just a hint of spring to come, I certainly won’t complain about it getting a bit ahead of me! I will try and keep this month’s reading report short and snappy, in part because I have other things to do today besides sit and write and also because I have a lot of books…

  • Faith Talk - Uncategorized - Writing Life

    Original: Five Minute Fridays

    February 28, 2025 - By 

    This post is part of Five Minute Fridays Link-Ups. Here is my post for this week’s prompt: Original Time begins now…. According to the Cambridge Dictionary the word “original” means: “existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form of something; “. When I read that definition, I immediately thought of John 1:1-3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:1-3 (NIV) God is the Original Originator, the Creator of the created. He is the first,…