Searching for a Balance

"The ultimate goal of all prayer is the coming of the Kingdom of God, and hence first of all the sanctification of his name, so that, i...

I have a nice co-worker who didn't have to cook for Thanksgiving, and she wanted to work today, a half-day. So, she worked and I stayed ...

For my brother's birthday I was going to make a cheesecake, as I usually do. But he seemed to be fighting a cold the week before, so I a...

My brother came home with a dozen eggs from a client who has chickens. They said, don't refrigerate!  They'll last a week on the cou...

They paved our road today; with many large trucks and other vehicles, rolling and flattening; men tamping down the asphalt around the edg...

We thought, last Thursday, the road would soon be paved, because they were putting down more dirt and rolling over it to flatten it out. ...

All faded is the glowing light That once from heaven shone, When startled shepherds in the night The angels came upon. O shine ag...

I was wondering how long it would take the little orphan to find the throw over the back of the rocking chair. Not long. And that stuff...

I have been slowly, very slowly removing the wallpaper in the bathroom and painting the walls - just the upper half of the small room, the b...

The Christmas cactus at work is doing what it's supposed to do. It will bloom at the proper time and all will be well.

Yesterday was a blessing - warmer (around 60) than expected (50-55). Outside, I cut off all the rosehips and washed the outside of the back ...

Valedictorian by Phyllis McGinley Stand up, young man with the pink and earnest face, Tonight grown paler. The crease of your n...

O Jesus, to your servants give The consolation they require; And when the cloud of trouble falls, With heavenly hope their souls insp...

Where I live, November is the month with the least amount of sunshine. That's funny, coming right after the sunniest. Today was such a...

A nice young woman who brings her boys in the library makes soap. And she brought some in for all of us!  Pumpkin spice. It's lov...

I've noticed Annie lately going through the basket of cat toys. She knows where to get them, and she can pull some out with her claws. ...

I had almost entirely forgot about the basil, and last night's temperatures in the twenties almost did it in.

Well, I went to the supermarket today. The Domino light brown sugar was light, and the dark was dark. The store brand, however, was another ...

The trees are undressing, and fling in many places - On the gray road, the roof, the window-sill - Their radiant robes, and ribbo...

Tomorrow is November, and it's seventy degrees out - now, at night! We bought loads of candy for the trick-or-treaters and then they sai...

Season of mists and yellow fruitfulness.

"God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my ...

I realized I was out of light brown sugar, so I bought some. That's it on the left; on the right is some dark. Do you see it? They ar...

A most underrated color.

When did I first mention they were digging up our road, and re-doing the pipes? June or July, I think. two or three weeks ago - our fro...

Not that I'm an expert on tomatoes, but I think it must be an old wives' tale that in order to ripen a green tomato, you need to wra...

"One of the things we feel after reading a great work is ' I have got out'. In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charit...

Where I live, the month with the most sunny days is October. I wasn't sure this October was living up to it's reputation, but today ...

My brother came home tonight to find his lower curtain down, rod and all.  I wonder how bad this is going to get. Before it gets better, ...

"Prayer follows an awareness of dependence: a little child relies on his parents for everything, and a child of God feels like this abo...

My co-worker and I took a trip to a museum to see a Van Gogh display, and to hear an author speak on his biography of Vincent . Horton ...