Dear Audrey -
So we've come to the week of your wedding. How exciting. There is so much to do and so many activities going on around you - you're in the middle of your very own magical fairytale of delights. You are absolutely glowing!
I have seen the beautiful things your parents have planned for your wedding. [...]
GIVING IS WHERE IT'S AT, a brain doodle from the noodle of my younger brother, Joe, who pastors in Aberdeen, SD
Christmas was coming My bank account was fat T’was time to do the shopping ‘Cause giving’s where it’s at
With my mind all full of ideas And a list a mile long I headed out [...]
Thoughts on gifts…
"The most memorable gifts are a little mirror in which we see ourselves through the loving eyes of the giver." - Judith Thurman
"When a gift is well chosen, it intuit's a heart's desire." - unknown
"Giving is a form of dialogue. The most memorable gifts seem to answer a question, settle a doubt, or [...]
"Presents are the best way to show some one how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, 'Hey man - I love you this many-dollars-worth.'" - Michael Scott as played by Steve Carrell, explaining why he spent four hundred dollars on the office Secret Santa gift exchange when [...]
I pulled out that classic Christmas album, "A Partridge Family Christmas Card" featuring the vocal stylings of David Cassidy.
Yeah, that's right, baby! I am a child of the 70's. So - I still like to hear The Partridge Family singing Christmas carols once or twice each Christmas season. I try not to go public with [...]
I hope you're with family and friends. I hope the house smells of good things and you are comprehending the blessing and privilege of your life as you live under an open heaven.
I hope if I know you, you know how much I love you and am thankful for you.
Happy Day!…Jeanie
NOTE TO SELF: Teach the [...]
We woke up to snow today.
I had accidentally left my final harvest of red and green (for frying) tomatoes outside piled on a plate. Oh well.
Gavin came over for pre-school and for "recess" wanted to go outside. He said, "Watch, Nonna," as he ran with enhuberance out the door in gloves and hats and scarves.
He [...]
She was an adultress, a cheater, a sinner. She was a disappointment, a law-breaker. She had let so many people down.
Now she was being exposed to the Light of the World.
The scribes and Pharisees brought her to Jesus as He was teaching in the temple. They'd caught her in "the very act of adultry," they [...]
It's a balmy 76-degrees here in the Denver area today, much like yesterday. Because of his recent surgery, Dave was unable to join every neighbor on our block in putting up their lights and decorations for Christmas over the weekend (before the snow falls later this week), but the block was brilliantly sparkling last night [...]
Memories can play tricks on you, especially childhood memories when you were too young to put words to the emotions of an event or your surroundings. The more you think about it now, the more articulate you become about the emotion you felt - good or bad. But your facts were so limited. You might not [...]
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