There’s not too much I love more than sitting around my kitchen table with my elderly friends and family listening to them recount “the glory days.” They swap story after story about events, places and people. Some sad. Some funny. I could listen to those stories over and over again (and I do) for hours. That’s fine with me. They are just as much a joy to hear the thirtieth time as they were the first. That good ol’ down-home feeling is what I experienced recently when I had the pleasure of reading Singing Ain’t Enough: The Inspiring Story of Maggie Ingram by Joy Harris.Read More →

“Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint, and to the them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mountRead More →

“Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10) Looking through a local antique shop called The Kaleidoscope I lovingly beheld objects that were identical to those that had decorated my grandmother’s home years ago. As I rummaged through antiquated styles and fads I began to reminisce about different friends and loved ones whom I miss. Oh, how things change! Do you ever think about that? Change, I mean. Everything in life changes. Our children grow up and leave home. We grow older. Jobs change. People move here and there, coming and going. Children are born. Loved ones die. Nothing seems certain. Everything isRead More →