Emily sat at her kitchen window wistfully looking out at her flower garden. She thought about the days when she was younger and would spend hours planting and weeding her little patch of ground. She took delight in drying the flowers for special table arrangements. Her husband would sit in his easy chair with a mug of coffee in one hand and either his Bible or the newspaper in the other – depending on which side of the cup of coffee he was. “How’s my beautiful bride?” Edward would ask, looking tenderly at his wife, Elizabeth. She would smile. “Fine, Read More
Category: love
What’s Your Perspective?
Perspective : “Woe is me,” cried the mouse, “for life is short and full of sorrow with cats and traps all about, we’re never sure about tomorrow!” “Oh no,” said the horse, “for life is long and full of leisure, with all this food and grass about, each day is just another pleasure.” And so it appears to be, as the horse and the mouse have said, “Life is either good or bad – it’s all what’s in your head.” It’s all in one’s perspective. Take the death of Jesus on the cross some two thousand years ago – how Read More
If Not Me, Then Who?
Amanda Tingle Taylor is my special guest blogger this week. I think you will love her, too. I cradle her on my chest, her little hand resting on my neck. She’s so little for her age but she fits perfectly against me. I know my days with her are numbered as we have been told she will be going to live with her father— a father she has never known and who has only met her a couple of times. Less than a week into her placement with us my husband told me, “You are getting too attached to her!” Read More