Today is a day of celebration! My first grandchild, a boy, was born to my daughter, Caroline Rebekah and her husband, Jacob Matthew. Thomas Jay Bulman arrived today at 12:26, weighing 8 pounds and measuring 21 inches long. His birth makes me a grandmother for the very first time. My understanding of and capacity for …
It Should Have Been Me
Slight pressure in my right hand pulled me toward consciousness as I fought to kick the covers from my legs. A female voice comforted me as she patted my legs and helped me to untangle my feet. The bright light overhead reminded me that I was waking from anesthesia and the sound of my husband’s …
Good Figs
Guest Post by Kimberly J. Branham My mother-in-law and father-in-law have several fig trees. Once a year, they begin to bear fruit. My daughter and I love figs, so we anxiously await the day when they are ripe and ready to enjoy. There is almost nothing better than a perfectly ripe fig! Equally true, there …
Insurance
When I was in 5th grade, the Gideons still came into public schools to distribute personal New Testaments to any child who wanted a copy of God’s Word free of charge. I don’t remember anyone in my class declining the offer and we each went home that day with God’s Word in hand, imitation leather …
Story
When our children were small, I had a hundred things to relate to my husband every evening when he walked in the door from work. None of them were mind blowing or ground breaking. Simple things like whose tooth was loose or who took a first step or used the potty by themselves or ate …
Acknowledge
“And I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News.”Philippians 1:12 NLThttps://www.bible.com/116/php.1.12.nlt I love to give gifts but I’m terrible at surprises! I put off shopping too far in advance because even if I find the perfect thing, (especially …
Splendor
I am not musically gifted but I love to sing. I took several years of piano lessons and my fingers instinctively follow music as if I’m playing, but I never really got past chopsticks. My babies were serenaded with hymns and worship songs rather than lullabies as I rocked them to sleep, the lyrics a …
Parched
Patches of brown grass crunch beneath my feet. The sunsets I love are harshest on my backyard. The soil was prepared for bermuda sod this time last year but a heavy rain the night before washed ruts down the gentle slope, leaving the ground underneath uneven. I walk the two hundred feet from fence to …
Desire
I have to be careful about saying I want something now because if it is in my husband’s power to give it, he will! He has such a generous nature. Once he decides on a thing, he follows through swiftly. I’m the one who deliberates for days and then decides I really don’t need anything …
Beautiful
Sunsets are my favorite. I haven’t been awake to see very many sunrises, but I’ve collected photos over the past few years of spectacular sunsets. I’ve even watched the sun set from the airport and then again after takeoff. While we were in the building process, it’s fair to say I have as many pictures …
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