Bike Ride

Yesterday (Saturday) we went for a motorcycle ride with Jim and Janet Myler.  It was supposed to be a really hot day, but we met in Portsmouth at 1:00 and it was cloudy and about 81.  We rode north to Dow City, got sprinkled on, went on to Pisgah, still cloudy.  The temp actually dropped […]

LAY IT DOWN

What is it within me that always seeks its own?  The ego, the sin nature, the “I”? Even though my heart and intent is to seek God, it is almost never that pure. There is this other layer of what’s in it for me.  I hate that. I want You, Holy Spirit, to get rid […]

Who’s Hungry??

I love baking cookies.  Oatmeal chocolate chip to be exact.  It’s a recipe from my Aunt Rhoda and has been a food group all its own in our family.  Once when my nephew was a little boy and at our house I asked him if he wanted a cookie. He replied, “What kind of cookie?” […]

A New Page

There’s a new page listed above the posts named Devotions 1-10.  These are the first ten devotions in my book “Fringes of His Ways”.  I plan on eventually getting all the devotions on my blog posting ten per page.  I hope they can help you in your search for the God who loves you so […]

Yancey

We’ve decided that we have an alpaca.  Why, you ask?  Why not?  He’s smaller than a llama, and really pretty cute.  His name is Yancey.  If you’d like to see him, you may wait a long time…he’s very shy.  Our kids haven’t seen him yet, so they’re considering having us committed.  Of course, they’ll have […]

LIVING ON PURPOSE

I need to be more deliberate, Lord, in the use of my time. So much can be wasted away on things that may seem important at the time, but in the end they are meaningless. Purpose. I need to have purpose in the time that I call my own, especially at this stage of my […]

FREEDOM

It’s Memorial Day, a day when we are all reminded of how expensive our freedom is.  It has cost the lives of millions of men and women over the centuries, and it continues to be costly today. In terms of our salvation we know that freedom for us meant Christ’s death on the cross…the ultimate […]