Tag: #WriteYourOwnStory

Renew

It was a humid spring morning, the air still holding a great deal of moisture from the storms that had rolled through the night before. There were clouds on the horizon, ones that threatened to bring rain. But I was outside nevertheless. I had gotten new hiking shoes a few day prior and wanted to […]

Cast Out the Nets Again

Fishing is sometimes a futile activity. Time and time again, you cast out, hoping for a catch. But the bait disappears, or the line breaks, or nothing wants to bite. You wait and wait and wait and nothing appears, or the catches are too small, or not the right fish. All you have is wasted […]

Just a little Saturday ramble

It’s dogeared and worn, the pages a rainbow of highlights. There are margins full of quickly jotted annotations and it’s full of sticky notes and index cards with connections and random notes. The cover is almost more tape than cardstock. But this book has been a part of my life for the past twenty some-odd […]

Why be normal?

I have always been a bit on the high-strung side and have always had little quirks and oddball likes. I tend to keep my head in the clouds and act like a giant goofy kid. My brother often calls me “kooky-crazy”, which I have embraced wholeheartedly. All of it is just part of the magic […]

Locked Doors and Closed Minds

A friend of mine recently shared a saying his great-grandfather used to always say. It sounds similar to the sayings of all great-grandfathers, but it went something like this: “Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.” ~ Everett Taylor Thomas was one of Jesus’ disciples, according to the accounts […]

The Negative and the Positive

Did you know that if one person says something negative, it can take between 3 and 40 positive comments to outweigh it? For every bad thing, it takes several more good things to counter it. The vast difference in that ratio seems to be because while scientists have studied the idea, they can’t agree on […]

Discovering the stories of the past – Aunt May

As some already know (especially if you’ve explored the links on this blog), I am also a family historian, one who has been discovering and telling the stories of my family tree for almost twenty-five years now. While that facet of my life has been on the back burner now for a bit since I […]

Words and meanings

There is a certain group text chat that I am a part of in which I need to pay certain attention to how I word my responses, for certain others will read into the words more than I intended. I choose my words with care often and still get complaints of how I was “too […]

Why are you weeping?

Small bells, made for children’s hands, clamored joyously from the front of the sanctuary as the congregation sang a simple hymn about knowing Jesus loves them. The sound was effervescently exuberant, melding magically and shining brightly despite a bit of discord in the melody. The kids, ever hopeful, were making a joyful noise for those […]