Are you feeling a little sluggish today?    Do you feel a little stuck and not moving forward?  Is life cramping your style?  If so, I have good news for you.   Your solution might be found in the phrase, The Magic of Prunes! I repeated this phrase daily to our team while on a multi-day […]

Authors Note: I am participating in the Open Letter Challenge writing contest organized by Josh Irby. The following letter is my response to An Open Letter to You from the Rest of the World. Dear Rest of the World (ROTW), Your recent letter was such an encouragement to me.  I pray these simple, but heartfelt […]

I came across this powerful video via  Josh Irby’s  website.  Josh currently lives in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and is the author of Meeting Miss Irby.  We recently connected and have corresponded a few times.  A picture is worth more than a thousand words!

…You will always harvest what you plant….let’s not get tired of doing what is good.  At just the right time you will reap a harvest of blessing if you don’t give up. Therefore, whenever you have the opportunity, you should do good to everyone! (Galatians 6:7-10)

My hope is you will be blessed by what you see and in doing so, it will be a visible example of the power of a seed sown!

How can you look for the opportunity to do good to someone today? 

Have you ever had one of those days right from the outset where you knew it was going to be unusual one?  I had one of those days recently.   We were in Richmond to lend support to Jackie’s sister, Buttons, who had major surgery earlier this week.  We stayed at a hotel a short distance […]

It was a cool Saturday morning, with the temperatures hovering around the 50° mark.  The sky was overcast and the slight wind made it feel a bit cooler.   Jeff and I previously registered for the Milton Harvest Festival Bike Race and were ready for a few hours of cycling this mid-September day. The twenty eight […]

Note: This is a re-post of a previous entry.  Lately, I have come across more situations in people’s lives that led me to want to offer this encouragement.  I live in north central Pennsylvania, in a community nestled along the west branch of the Susquehanna River. Dairy and tobacco farms, many of them owned by […]

Occasionally, I plan to re-post a former blog entry posted elsewhere.  This entry is one under the category, VINTAGE POST!       The mention of an archaic word duo like “typing class” ought to give my approximate age away! A class like that is something of an academic dinosaur compared to the modern day […]

There are times when life seems like a stream making its way through the contours of a riverbed, gently flowing over the rocks toward a larger tributary.  Time is marked by the passing minutes and hours with no sense of urgency to them. Have you ever experienced a time when the ride is wild and […]

Personal Note:  I consider this my “vintage” blog post, long before blogging ever existed.  In the 1970’s, a song called “We’ve Only Just Begun” was made popular by Karen and Richard Carpenter, a brother – sister duo referred to as The Carpenters.  Although I will not record a MP3 and sing for you, this is […]