The Flowers of My Labors

by | Nov 28, 2007 | Celebrate, Woman's Life

This is going to be a picture post.  I finished the wedding flowers a little while ago.  Wow!  That took some creative energy.  The bride has seen the flowers now (all except a few of the little ones) so I can show you the fruit of my...

Reclaiming the Master Bedroom

by | Nov 7, 2007 | Romance, Woman's Life

I am messy.  I am not a born-organized kind of person.  Things around me are not dirty (I don’t like dirty), but there is clutter.  There are piles all around my desk and all over my husband’s desk and on top of the file cabinet...

The Preacher’s Wife – a Poem

by | Oct 25, 2007 | Pastor's Wife, Woman's Life

I wasn’t originally going to post this, because it felt like I would be saying “Pat ME on the back, would ya?”  But I’ve had enough Google search hits looking for poems about pastors or pastors’ wives that I thought I would go ahead...

Life Verse and Goal

by | Sep 27, 2007 | Adventures, Woman's Life

In the book I’m currently reading (one of many!), I’ve been challenged to spend some time with the Lord and ask him to give me a life verse and a life goal. Catherine Martin writes in Six Secrets to a Powerful Quiet Time: “…ask Him to make one verse stand...

Life Verse – Isaiah 43:18-19

by | Sep 25, 2007 | Adventures

Isaiah 43:18-1918  “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. (NIV)18  “Forget about...