Be Still and Know...Then and Now

Did your family attend church when you were growing up? That would be a BIG NO! I have said before that one of my deepest regrets is that my mom did not lay that foundation for my sister and me when we were growing up. I look back now on those day and I am sad for those little girls and sad for all three of us. I think of the turmoil and the anxiety of those times and I wonder how it might have been different if I had know who Jesus was. Let me just say that there is a big “BUT” in this situation. When I think of how difficult it was for us growing up and the decisions and the choices I made as a result of how things were I can’t help but wonder would I be the same person if had I been removed from those difficult situations. The reality of the matter is that we learn our most valuable lessons from our difficult times. What are your earliest memories of church? I do remember going to church on occasion. We went on Christmas and Easter once and a while but that was it. I d...

  Sometimes ya just have to give God the credit… Another example of how God has even the very tiniest detail of our lives covered. On Thursday afternoon during Campmeeting I went in search of some toilet paper for our cabin. The Campground care take handed me over two rolls of this! This Heavenly Bathroom Tissue was yet another shinning example of how God covers every detail of my life with His provision. Coincidence…maybe! God-incidence absolutely! On this Thursday I am very thankful for God Provision and His attention to detail! Y’all head over to Greg’s General Store for more Thankful Thursday Blessings R

Cloudscapes, Geysers and Rebirth. Yellowstone was the epitome of so many different examples of how great and creative God really is! The color of the sky was out standing. I don’t know what the difference is but I can tell you that the sky is not this blue in my part of the country. The cloudscapes were just amazing! The Continental Divide snakes around in Yellowstone and in the days that we were there we crossed over it several dozen times.  Every time we passed over a section of the continental divide I could not help but think of the pioneers of centuries ago who braved the wilderness to explore parts unknown. Being the true blue southerners that we are, in typical southern fashion, we lost out heads at the sight of snow. Snow y’all! Still on the ground and in late June. I am not sure what I found more fascinating. The wildlife or the geysers. I was not sure what I was expecting but I found all the geysers to be just amazing. At nearly every t...

At least I think it’s week 29 and 30. My mind is a fuzzy blur with all the activity over the last few days. Since I was not able to post this past Sunday my 365 for this week will be a “two-fer” so hang on for an extended edition of 365. Sunday, July 11, We have been in the process of dong some organizing at least where the garage and back yard are concerned. A few project 365’s ago I shared with you about the installation of a garden shed in our back yard. Well with the addition of the new storage space in the back yard we have been able to do some purging in the garage as well. We spent the day clearing out the garage and now it actually looks like a garage. I share all this with you not to show you a picture of how great our garage looks now but to give you a look into my latest new project which came as a result of all our cleanliness. When I was in high school and in my younger days of my marriage before the children came. I use to paint quite a bit. I had a very large ...

I think everyone in the blogoshpere has taken a collective vacation, as for me it’s time for Campmeeting … I’ll be back next week with all my campmeeting insights and some additional vacay post as well! I hope y’all find a cool spot to sit a spell! I’m hanging out nightly under the arbor with my fan and enjoying being in the presence of the body of Christ. Blessings R

I have to tell y’all that I love this weeks prompt from Mocha with Linda ! What sort of sayings, colloquialisms, or proverbs did your family say when you were growing up? My grandmother, y’all I miss her so much sometimes!!!!! She had one expression that stands out in my my mind. I may have even shared it with all of y’all before, but it is worthy of repetition. I can just hear her now “ You want what you want when you want it!  When you get what you want, you don’t want what you want, but you want what you want when you want it!” Now Grandma was by far indulgent, the practice of going out and picking my own switch off the tree on more than a few occasion will attest to her firm hand. She also was wonderfully generous in her own special way. I remember her sliding the random slice my way as she peeled peaches for our desert after supper. I remember there was always a cold green glass bottle of seven-up in the refrigerator, vanilla ice cream in the freezer, a tootsie pop...

Just for Skoots1mom , but all y’all can enjoy it too! Enjoy R

We hit Yellowstone on Friday, June 25, 2010. What can I say about Yellowstone National Park ? It was amazing! One day in the golden years of our retirement I hope to go back and really spend some time there. In the two and a half-ish days that we were there we hit all the high spots but there was just so much to see and do. I would love to have an RV and just park it in a camping spot and then just stay for a while. “Yellowstone National Park, encompassing 2.2 million acres, is one of America's premier wilderness areas. Most of the park is backcountry and managed as wilderness. Over 1,100 miles (1770 km) of trails are available for hiking.” I would also love to spend some time hiking those 1,100 miles of trails or just hanging out in the shade of one of the pines sitting beside one of the amazing vistas or one of the variety of waterways. It was quite possible the most wide and varied collection of natural wonders all in one place that I have ever encountered. One ...