My mom used to collect artificial fruit for different purposes. Artificial fruit arebeautifully colored to show the beauty of God’s creation without having to dealwith rotting bananas, shriveled grapes, or the pesky fruit flies. The humorous partis watching someone bite into a shiny red apple only to get their teeth stuck inplastic. In my younger days, I spent a lot of time observing people in chu...  Read More

Summer is here and people who love to feel the earth between their fingers havealready begun planting their gardens. My husband is in the garden plantingvegetables as he has done for several years. It’s a joy to see that beautiful fruitcome forth and to be able to partake of it, but it does not happen by itself. It takesnurturing such as putting in the right compounds in the soil. It takes watchin...  Read More

This month we celebrate Father’s Day. In my earlier years as a child, I never hadan opportunity to know my biological father. However, I had a stepfather who hada lot of emotional problems that resulted in total chaos in my home growing up.Then one day my mother put a stop to it all when she got tired of being abused anddivorced him. But in the meantime, I realized that I had a true father, and th...  Read More

The day after Mother’s Day I had a second knee repair. When thetube was put down my throat before surgery, one of my vocal cords wasaccidentally damaged which caused my voice to become a whisper. The doctorssaid it would take two to three weeks before my regular voice comes back as longas I rest my vocal cords and not talk too much.It’s amazing when you realize how much you actually talk. I went t...  Read More

“You will know them by their fruits…. Even so, every good tree bears good fruit,but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad treebear good fruit…” (Matt. 7:16-20 NKJV).People experience our fruit by seeing us in action. They watch our character, levelof integrity, honesty, and the list goes on. Do we live in such a way that drawspeople to our Lord and Savior, Je...  Read More

A couple of weeks ago, we had an opportunity to go to Atlanta Georgia to visit mysister-in-law who is in the hospital. It was a good trip and while we were there, Ipurchased a plaque that reads, ‘Family Makes This House a Home.’ That is whatwise men and women do; they make a house a home.Our society tells us that the more one owns the better person he or she is. They buythe biggest house and the l...  Read More