Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. Heb 13:5 I don’t have a problem with coveting great riches. Sounds to me like way too much to have to worry about. But I do have a problem with wanting ‘just a little bit more’. I’ve been volunteering at a […]
In everything you do, stay away from complaining and arguing…let your lives shine brightly before [a dark world full of crooked and perverse people]. But the people grew impatient along the way, and they began to murmur against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?…There […]
Hauntingly lonely. Those were the words that came to my mind as we walked in late after dropping our ‘baby’ off to fly away to school. Having dropped her off very early that morning Jim and I had spent a lovely day together, albeit punctuated by glances at the clock and calculations as to where […]
For this week, please enjoy my thoughts in pictures at “Sketches from Skeltons”. http://linda.theskeltons.org/2013/09/houseboating-together-again/ We emerged with kids and grands from our houseboat vacation yesterday with goods in tow and dispersed to head to our separate homes to dig into routines new and old. Jim, Rachel and I will be a few more days visiting other […]
The sheets are swishing in the washing machine. Toast and tea, ‘Honey Bunches’ and blueberries fill my belly. Friday’s newspaper is strewn on the living room floor. Remnants of school work–civics papers, a life science text– are plunked about the room. All awaiting clean-up. Here it is, Saturday and I’ve missed my self-imposed deadline for […]