I am sure in one way or another during your lifetime you have had a pity party. Icall it a “personalized pity party” because you are the only one that comes. We mayhave a personalized pity party because things didn’t go right on the job, arelationship went haywire, a serious health issue arose, we suffered financialhardship, someone misjudged us, or our suggestions were turned down.If you haven’t ...  Read More

“O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to beenvied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him” (Psalms 34:8 AMP).Christ’s intent is for every child of God to live a fulfilled life in their relationshipwith God the Father, and a fruitful life while here on earth. But sadly, not everyonewalks in the freedom that is offered. Many give in to the lies of the en...  Read More

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